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What good does endless surveillance do if you ignore the crime it sees? No one is going to be intimidated in good behavior by a bunch of cameras if they know no
by Mountain_Skies 4y ago
What good does endless surveillance do if you ignore the crime it sees? No one is going to be intimidated in good behavior by a bunch of cameras if they know nothing will come of what they see.
- smt88 4y agoIt doesn't matter what "good" endless surveillance does because it is the most potent tool of authoritarianism and should be illegal.
- ls15 4y agoExactly. It annoys me that people are discussing the benefits, when the cost isn't even remotely acceptable.
- feet 4y agoIt's the asinine relativist view that there are somehow 'two sides' to every single issue. It's bullshit and it's the reason the US has been sliding into consolidation of corporate power in the government. People can't seem to see past the propaganda
- anigbrowl 4y agoRelativism is a very useful tool for analyzing different phenomena; I regularly try to adopt the perspective of people I deeply dislike to understand them better. But this is hard work, and a lot of people just opt for a heuristic of 'look at the problem from both sides and split the difference'. This is often adequate for many small problems, but when you start applying that approach to value judgments it makes people alarmingly easy to manipulate.
- anigbrowl 4y agoClosing arguments in this trial are going on right now. It's worth looking into the record on this one. https://www.courthousenews.com/san-francisco-opioid-trial-opens-with-walgreens-accused-of-fueling-addiction-crisis/ https://www.courthousenews.com/san-francisco-opioid-trial-op...
- bigDinosaur 4y agoIt's perfect for selective enforcement though.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoExactly. This will be used against the unlucky petty criminal who's actions go viral and draw public ire and to facilitate harassment of undesirables who are not sufficiently marginalized.