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The chilling effect of surveillance is somewhat well known. How much less likely are we to openly discuss activism on various matters if we're afraid of an ambi
by stephengillie 11y ago
The chilling effect of surveillance is somewhat well known. How much less likely are we to openly discuss activism on various matters if we're afraid of an ambiguous punishment?
Even the humorous notion that we might say something innocuous online or in email and become a member of the "always randomly screened" club haunts us as we conduct our daily affairs. We reconsider word choice, phrasing, and intent, so a semantic word filter won't pick us out of the crowd.
- batou 11y agoWhy has everyone forgotten the pub? Many revolutions and grand discoveries started in pubs. I'm starting to think that Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence was a warning about now.
- userbinator 11y agoThe solution is for everyone to "increase the noise", so the filters won't be able to distinguish any signal. There is safety in numbers, but the problem is that most people have been gradually conditioned to behave otherwise, and thus it'll require a very large sudden change to work.