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> The only difference now is that the tech is smarter and cheaper so that you don’t need to pay as many people to spy on their coworkers. Your comment implies
by karaterobot 4y ago
> The only difference now is that the tech is smarter and cheaper so that you don’t need to pay as many people to spy on their coworkers.
Your comment implies this isn't potentially an enormous difference. The difference is between having to pay people to spy on their coworkers, and having computers that do it passively, invisibly, continuously, in real time?
- parasubvert 4y ago… And completely predictable and inevitable for 50 years, and written about endlessly since the mid 20th century. Short of a butlerian jihad level event, the only way to fight back is better countermeasures and better value. The law won’t help (they want more surveillance). Democracy won’t help (most people want more surveillance on their neighbors). Exploit the system.