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Noone has mentioned there that they are afraid of their loveletters to be publicly available, as a consequence of surveilance. (It is possible, but whatever) I
by alandarev 12y ago
Noone has mentioned there that they are afraid of their loveletters to be publicly available, as a consequence of surveilance. (It is possible, but whatever)
Instead, our problem, is that surveilance is being used as a an invaluable tool for autocracy.
And the question is not whether they will use surveilance for oppressing government opposition, but when if not already.
- grkvlt 12y agoI think that is a good question. And if there were ever a case of surveillance being used to suppress government opposition, that would be terrible. But this has not occurred, and opposition to the government is a protected and valued right of every citizen of both the UK and the US. There are even entire organisations devoted to the opposition of the current government, some in the UK even go as far as having a 'shadow' group that mirrors the current ruling cabinet, to contest their decisions publicly.
- Nursie 12y agoYou've not heard about the police embedding undercover officers into protest groups then? And acting as agent provocateurs when embedded within them? To the extent some of them had sham relationships and are now being pursued for effectively rape? Maybe that's not surveillance being used to suppress in your book. Whatever. Your post reads like propaganda though.