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>Americans don’t want (federal) government knowing anything about them At the same time they don’t have any issues with commercial companies knowing everything
by trasz 4y ago
>Americans don’t want (federal) government knowing anything about them
At the same time they don’t have any issues with commercial companies knowing everything about them, without any kind of control or oversight.
- junofan 4y agoI get class action privacy litigation notices all the time.
- trasz 4y agoAnd yet nothing changes.
- jxramos 4y agoI think the big difference there is in what capacities for violence exist within these two entities. One has a monopoly on legal violence and is armed (government) the other has no such powers (corporations). You want to limit how much power you give to an entity that has a legal monopoly on violence. Behind this desire to limit power is the recognition of the sad recurring reality of what is known as democide. Also on the table here is the distinction between tyranny, trending tyranny, and potential tyranny. If you’re not a member of a society in the state of potential tyranny then it may be too late to reverse the trend. So the question arises what safeguards and obstacles can be set in place that keep people in a state of peace and potential tyranny and how do you upset things from devolving into trending tyranny. These are pretty deep questions that I’m starting to scratch the surface in learning about.