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>>tokai+(OP)
In the US, we have government programs like PRISM and unchecked oligopolies that surveil us and use that information to identify dissent, sell us ads, and alter our behavior. In the EU, there are these initiatives to surveil us in the name of safety.

Is there any regime out there who's not trying to mass-surveil their citizens for one reason or another?

>>Centig+jh
> Is there any regime out there who's not trying to mass-surveil their citizens for one reason or another?

Covid authoritarian policies were hugely successful and supported by mainstream people by and large. Not enough protests. Not enough dissent.

Now politicians know they can turn the power knob as high as they want and nothing will happen. Less and less dissent will be allowed, just like during covid.

If you fail to learn that and denounce those and reclaim the freedoms for all, you're going to just whine into a smaller and smaller room.

>>isaacr+vv
> Covid authoritarian policies were hugely successful and supported by mainstream people by and large. Not enough protests. Not enough dissent

America has been trashed not by Covid but by the precedence being set that partisan violence can and will be pardoned.

>>JumpCr+gy
I don't quite understand your point. I also meant covid policies. Not covid itself.

>>isaacr+MB
They probably meant January 6th rebels being pardoned giving the example that extremists that aim at preventing democratic election results from going into effect can do as they want.

Which is a much bigger problem than "stay home a bit to avoid unintentionally killing people".

>>Krssst+W91
Many people feel the point of the former was to prevent the latter