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The UK is building/has built a surveillance state using the boiling frog method. So even if you change vendors, surveillance will continue. You have accepted
by mc32 9mo ago
The UK is building/has built a surveillance state using the boiling frog method. So even if you change vendors, surveillance will continue. You have accepted it as par for the course. Unless you reject it and subsequent politicians don't double-cross you, surveillance will continue. No question.
- ronsor 9mo agoUK society has always been surprisingly tolerant of mass surveillance. Whether Palantir is involved or not, I think it may be too late to get off the train.
- throwaway150 9mo agoI know UK is ok with surveillance in public places because there is no expectation of privacy in public spaces. But are they really tolerant of surveillance in non-public places?
- rorylawless 9mo agoNo, not at all. The surveillance state nonsense is overplayed online.
- hexbin010 9mo agoBrit here. Yes because the average Brit is insufficiently educated to understand the harm. They are very easily swayed by "think of the children" or saving just one life. They consume huge amounts of propaganda with little to zero critical thinking
- secretsatan 9mo agoIt’s something that always horrified me, but it was just done without the governments help, they just let private individuals do it and gave away public spaces to private interests
- pjc50 9mo agoJust like the US, saying "immigrants" and "crime" gets the public, or at least the media, to demand authoritarianism.
- etc-hosts 9mo agoThere is a great UK tv show about the surveillance state, from 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capture_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capture_(TV_series)