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Everything I want to do in public I can still do. What "freedom" is lost? I gain security and lose no freedoms (unless you are doing something illegal). When
by toephu2 8mo ago
Everything I want to do in public I can still do.
What "freedom" is lost? I gain security and lose no freedoms (unless you are doing something illegal).
When property crime is up 53%.. plenty of people are willing to lose "freedom" whatever you are referring to, in exchange for safety.
- warkdarrior 8mo agoYou were recorded smoking marijuana, an illegal drug at the federal level. You were recorded walking into an abortion clinic, although face recognition identified as a resident of a state where abortion is illegal.
- chasd00 8mo agoWell aren’t both of those things crimes? I’m not a fan of mass surveillance either but maybe pick a different example.
- svachalek 8mo agoThe second is clearly not. State governments don't have jurisdiction over their residents when they are out of state.
- FarmerPotato 8mo agoRead about Texas. It's a crime to leave the state to get an abortion. They can prosecute when you return home. There have been vigilante patrols in West Texas, watching the necessary routes out of the state. The law gives any resident the grounds to turn in their neighbor for planning to get an abortion.
- duskdozer 8mo agoIs "crime" one and the same as "wrong"?
- janalsncm 8mo agoThe solution is to change the laws, not to stop enforcing them. Otherwise this is basically just giving up on the concept of having laws.
- yibg 8mo agoHow about just general privacy? I mean do you really want someone / the government to be able to track everywhere you go? - Going to your girlfriends place while the wife is at work - Visiting a naughty shop - Going into various companies for interviews while employed With mass surveillance there is the risk of mass data leak. Would you be comfortable with a camera following you around at all times when you're in public? I wouldn't be.
- svachalek 8mo agoThe right to privacy, to not let the government have a master record of everywhere you've ever been and everything you've ever said just in case they decide to someday revoke free speech and due process, or decide it doesn't apply. Lately we have plenty of examples of how quickly that can happen.
- mixmastamyk 8mo agoThe Stasi were "tough on crime" too, back when that was expensive. How quickly we forget. Well, you're welcome to find a panopticon to live it, but excuse other for not finding it a good tradeoff.