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Isn't this also a statement against gun control or generally anything that increases the power of the state with respect to the citizens? Governments can chang
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
Isn't this also a statement against gun control or generally anything that increases the power of the state with respect to the citizens?
Governments can change for the worse, and it will suck if they change in a way that makes you the receiving end of their wrath. However, the biggest state power that can be turned against you is their monopoly on violence. Who cares if they can surveil you, if they can just threaten to execute your friends and family unless you give them what they want?
Sometimes, we computer people see everything through the lens of computers that we forget larger, non-computer consequences.
- mikem170 5y agoThe surveillance allows the government to better target the violence. Building lists of troublemakers, lists of those with guns, collecting information that can be used for blackmail, social credit scores, etc. The Stasi, the East German secret police, had the same guns as officials have in free countries, the difference seemed to be the effort they put into surveillance. Technology enables so much more of that.
- dabbledash 5y ago>> Isn't this also a statement against gun control or generally anything that increases the power of the state with respect to the citizens? Yes.