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It will still have that monitoring it will just be under his control with multiple layers of deletion possible depending on the severity of his crimes the camer
by snapplebobapple 2y ago
It will still have that monitoring it will just be under his control with multiple layers of deletion possible depending on the severity of his crimes the cameras pick up (if there is a fire in his server room you can be pretty sure he raped or murdered someone). Atleast this is the silent part you are not supposed to say out loud that i picked up vibing from his comments.
- walterbell 2y agoIf the goal of surveillance is behavior control, then invisible-to-camera status can become a commodity to be turned on/off based on evolving priorities, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41563571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41563571. A few years ago, there was news coverage of an invisible-to-surveillance list in China.
- dsq 2y ago'You can turn it off!' he said. 'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.' (Nineteen Eighty Four)
- water-data-dude 2y agoSaved me looking up that exact quote, hahaha! An excellent book. I spent the first part of my life thinking it mainly spoke to the past (we learned our lesson, right?), and that a Brave New World style future was more likely, but now I think it’s deeper than that. Totalitarianism shows up because of a flaw in the human psyche, and we need to be fucking CAREFUL.