I agree in principle but also this feels like retroactive justification for the current state or affairs. I think it’s safe to assume that the “actors” that cr

I agree in principle but also this feels like retroactive justification for the current state or affairs. I think it’s safe to assume that the “actors” that created the “surveillance state” weren’t acting from some profound philosophy of mass control but rather some more immediate KPIs be it “increased user engagement” or “reduction of terror threats” that seemed important at the time. In other words we stumbled into this mess and now we need to figure out how to stumble out again.