[melling]

How is protecting your borders, a military base, etc oppressive?

Yes, the technology could be repurposed for nefarious uses, but so can just about every other technology. Machine learning, for example, probably has some excellent military applications.

[kabdib]

Ask people who lived in East Germany during the Cold War. A wall can keep people in just as easily as it can keep people out.

[mcmacintosh]

Oh, c'mon. There's plenty of difference between having border control and an insular totalitarian regime. You don't see any difference in the comparison?

[melling]

Looks like it was quite easy to get over the Berlin Wall:

http://www.ibtimes.com/how-berlin-wall-fell-two-reporters-re...

The guards with guns were the real impediment.

At any rate, we are discussing surveillance technology, not a wall. And it has nothing to do with Americans legally leaving the US.

[kabdib]

... yet

[melling]

Ah, right... That old scare mongering tactic.

"We can't do blah, blah, bah, ... yet."

Technology is always advancing, in fact at an increasing rate, whether you like it or not. Trying to scare people about the technology is not the answer.