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I try to never learn things from other country's experiences, too, or the past in general. These criticism are always invalid until the society in question goes
by drewbeck 3y ago
I try to never learn things from other country's experiences, too, or the past in general. These criticism are always invalid until the society in question goes full fascist. Only then can wring our hands and be sad, but until then it's all abstract and not worth worrying about.
- EA-3167 3y agoA classic slippery slope argument, free from anything like the burden of pointing to anything real. Where are the examples of this burgeoning techno-fascism? Where are the disappeared? Where is the American version of Zersetzung? Where is the creeping "social credit score" style of monitoring? We've had this tech for a while now, so where are the examples of it being systematically abused by the government?
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- mschuster91 3y agoHave you heard of the No Fly list, with completely innocent people being flagged and finding it out to be almost impossible to get out of that database? Of people being denied entry to the US because CBP thinks they might be sex workers? About the prosecution of (suspected) sex workers in the US in general? About how marijuana was banned to target hippies and anti-war protesters? About how teachers can lose their license for talking about LGBT topics? About widespread dragnet subpoena abuse using Google Maps as data provider?
- EA-3167 3y agoThe No Fly List failing spectacularly as a bit of security theater is not a good argument against anything other than overly contrived security theater, and poor database controls. The rest doesn't seem to have much to do with technology, more to do with Florida politics.
- mschuster91 3y agoThe only thing related to Florida was the LGBT bit. The rest are all examples of a government sticking its nose where it definitely does not belong.