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> sick to tech and information freedom Do you not understand that the tools the government uses to control non-citizens are turned inward all the time? Militar

> sick to tech and information freedom Do you not understand that the tools the government uses to control non-citizens are turned inward all the time? Military tech is tech, surveillance tech is tech. They are not chiming in on 'immigration policies', they are chiming in on technology used to actually implement those policies. If all you care about is not having tracking pixels in your personal consumer browser you're going to miss the most dangerous encroachments on your freedom.

Cheer2171 2y ago
These are selfish self-centered statists who cosplay as libertarians because they just want to buy weed and watch porn without the government knowing.
EasyMark 2y ago
I donate fairly regularly to EFF but I don’t really have a problem with the government having cameras on the border to spot illegal migrants. That’s the kind of surveillance we actually need rather than combing through gmail and SMS messages between teenagers.
bitcurious 2y ago
You are under the misapprehension that the US government is held back from tyranny by shitty technology. This is false - you could build a totalitarian dictatorship with near-absolute control with 1940s technology. Other states did. >Military tech is tech I want the US military to have the best guns, best tanks, best nukes, best drones, best planes, best satellites, best boats. And spoilers: they do. Yet somehow that has not encroached on our lives. Adding “best surveillance of our foreign borders” does not for a dictatorship make. >They are not chiming in on ‘immigration policies’ I’m not sure how else you can read this statement in the concluding paragraph: “Well, one reason may be that treating problems at the border as humanitarian crises.” Agree or disagree, this is pure domestic politics.

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> sick to tech and information freedom Do you not understand that the tools the government uses to control non-citizens are turned inward all the time? Militar

by tech_ken 2y ago

Cheer2171 2y ago
These are selfish self-centered statists who cosplay as libertarians because they just want to buy weed and watch porn without the government knowing.
EasyMark 2y ago
I donate fairly regularly to EFF but I don’t really have a problem with the government having cameras on the border to spot illegal migrants. That’s the kind of surveillance we actually need rather than combing through gmail and SMS messages between teenagers.
bitcurious 2y ago
You are under the misapprehension that the US government is held back from tyranny by shitty technology. This is false - you could build a totalitarian dictatorship with near-absolute control with 1940s technology. Other states did. >Military tech is tech I want the US military to have the best guns, best tanks, best nukes, best drones, best planes, best satellites, best boats. And spoilers: they do. Yet somehow that has not encroached on our lives. Adding “best surveillance of our foreign borders” does not for a dictatorship make. >They are not chiming in on ‘immigration policies’ I’m not sure how else you can read this statement in the concluding paragraph: “Well, one reason may be that treating problems at the border as humanitarian crises.” Agree or disagree, this is pure domestic politics.