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Americans ideological ‘I don’t trust the government coupled with ‘the government shouldn’t interfere with private businesses’ has hilarious results
by gmerc 3y ago
Americans ideological ‘I don’t trust the government coupled with ‘the government shouldn’t interfere with private businesses’ has hilarious results
- izacus 3y ago[flagged]
- azmodeus 3y ago[flagged]
- parineum 3y agoPainting with an incredibly broad brush while also oversimplifying the situation to the degree of misunderstanding is, I'm sure, emblematic of the people wherever you come from.
- stevage 3y agoGovernment shouldn't be able to spy on citizens. That's a job for they private sector...
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoIt's pretty easy to stick it back on the government here. License plates were originally sold in a time before mass surveillance, when they didn't constitute a de facto tracking device. Now they do constitute a tracking device, but you're still required by law to carry one wherever you go. And that's the thing we need to fix, because nobody should have this data. Not corporations, not the government, and not the criminals and foreign governments who are going to violate whatever law you propose to solve this in some way other than removing the legal requirement to carry a tracking device.
- didntcheck 3y agoYeah this is the point I find myself repeatedly making. In the internet age we're increasingly grappling with increases in quantity that become a quality of their own. Capture of public data points that seems reasonable, or even harmless, at the scale of manual human work can become a major instrument of coercion when networked computers can collate information from across the globe And do note that we have some precedence for understanding how legal actions can become illegal by magnitude with the offence of stalking. Taking pictures of people in public is generally legal, but repeatedly targeting the same person is in many cases not