Hint: They won't say "develop software to oppress the people". It will say "develop software to track child abuse and criminal activity" and "develop software t

Hint: They won't say "develop software to oppress the people". It will say "develop software to track child abuse and criminal activity" and "develop software to track people's preferences to be better able to help them find the products they need" and very slowly devolve from there, one incident at a time. > None of that is anything like what I was responding to, a system of forced labor camps I saw stories from the US about debtor prisons and about for-pay prisons with very questionable tactics used to fill them, people who cannot fight back because they have no money, often don't ever get an actual date in court but are forced to submit to accepting a sentence because the prosecutor threatens them with trying to get an outrageous sentence should they actually want a real judgement. https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/coercive-plea-bargaining-has-poisoned-the-criminal-justice-system-its-time-to-suck-the-venom-out https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/coercive-plea-... It's old: https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1210&context=fac_works https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&ht... I think your opinion on what is possible in the US justice system depends on where you are, i.e. location, as well as in the social hierarchy.