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A technology that is especially easy to use very negatively and relies on a constant maintenence of good moral virtue in government or law enforcement is a dang
by shlurpy 5y ago
A technology that is especially easy to use very negatively and relies on a constant maintenence of good moral virtue in government or law enforcement is a dangerously unstable risk. Its like how actively cooled nuclear reactors are just a technology, but its a far better idea to build them such that if power is lost even for a moment you don't experience a dangerous meltdown.
- raxxorrax 5y agoEspecially considering that you also have to look at the benefits. There still is no evidence that mass surveillance helped even in the most trivial cases. Crime numbers? Completely unaffected. I have no illusion that it is a mechanism to empower executive forces of course, but these invasive mechanism have to justify their existence. They have not done that to any degree at all.