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Here is the plan of our elected representatives: - Erode what resistance to total surveillance remains. - Practice total surveillance. Here is my plan to opp

by dsign 3y ago

Here is the plan of our elected representatives: - Erode what resistance to total surveillance remains. - Practice total surveillance. Here is my plan to oppose that plan: - Rekindle Orwell's 1984 as a full literary/movie/video-game genre, where awful things happen to people when the government or an associated non-knocking variant of the Spanish Inquisition shows up because somebody committed wrong-think. I'm a little afraid that if we don't succeed in bringing this problem to the general's public attention via their binging habits, as a sort of social vaccine, we will end up with the disease.

abdela 3y ago
Absolutely, this fight needs to be fought on the cultural/political battlefield. It can never be just a technological arms race or solution, because technology usually favors the rich. Culture eats strategy for breakfast, and mass culture of movies and video games is really the most effective way to teach the broader audience about these issues. Black mirror did a great job with some episoses, and also handmaid's tale has had a big impact in thinking about women's rights.