[nkkollaw]

Absolutely agree.

The most probable thing to me is that we'll sooner or later have it as bad a what's currently happening in China: spying via heavy use of face recognition, pre-crime, citizen score, etc. etc.

It doesn't look like people are alert/tough enough to hold on to freedom, governments will continue to slowly take it away from us until we have none.

[petre]

The Internet is really a tool. It can be used to track people, spy on them, censor free speech, spread propaganda and fake news or to organise protests like the yellow vest movement in France, which reminds me of the French Revolution and another tool, the printing press.

[alacombe]

These are just tools, the real problem is the complacent, worse... cooperating population.