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Who gets the money shouldn't be your focus, it's that there's even talk of anyone building such a system at all that should be the focus. Europe has a long his
by lenerdenator 23d ago
Who gets the money shouldn't be your focus, it's that there's even talk of anyone building such a system at all that should be the focus.
Europe has a long history of government abuses of human rights. There's absolutely no guarantee that such a system being designed and implemented by people in Europe as opposed to the US is a safeguard against any sort of human rights issues.
- logicchains 23d agoWhat do you mean, you don't think a party named the "Alternative for Deutschland" would make benevolent use of such systems when it gets into power?
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- lenerdenator 23d agoAh, yes, AfD. Where you can walk into a meeting, and cut off a guy's speech about five minutes in with this line [0] Seriously though, I'm surprised that there's not a lot more mass resistance to the idea. It's a massive surveillance apparatus. Meanwhile, Flock cameras are getting cut down, shot at, spray painted, or stolen with regularity in the US. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AegXcu7kA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AegXcu7kA
- userbinator 23d agoMeanwhile, Flock cameras are getting cut down, shot at, spray painted, or stolen with regularity in the US. For better or worse, there's a sizeable chunk of the US population who still have that "rebel" trait; that and the innate distrust of government and institutions in general is nothing compared to European culture.