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ineedasername ◴[] No.45768131[source]
I’m continually astounded that so many people, faced with a societal problem, reflexively turn to “Hmmm, perhaps if we monitored and read and listened to every single thing that every person does, all of the time…”

As though it would 1) be a practical possibility and 2) be effective.

Compounding the issue is that the more technology can solve #1, the more these people fixate on it as the solution without regards to the lack of #2.

I wish there were a way, once and for all, to prevent this ridiculous idea from taking hold over and over again. If I could get a hold of such people when these ideas were in their infancy… perhaps I should monitor everything everyone does and watch for people considering the same as a solution to their problem… ah well, no, still don’t see how that follows logically as a reasonable solution.

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1. athrowaway3z ◴[] No.45769868[source]
There is a way to once and for all prevent this.

More IT people in politics.

The mass-surveillance proponents will always exist in small numbers, but it gets revived every other month because the number of ignorant politicians receptive to the idea is a function of their ignorance and malformed understanding of reality.

But that isn't their fault.

It's the magic tech companies are selling - and it's knowledgeable individuals who have to effectively communicate and explain bullshit.

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2. Yeul ◴[] No.45773653[source]
Right the IT people who work for Google and Facebook and would sell their own mother for stock options.

Luckily people who spend all day looking at screens make for notoriously bad politicians.