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by deepstream 2641 days ago
Hahaha. You already have it. Covert interception. FAANG. Snowden "blew the whistle" on only a tiny fraction. You already exceeded 1984's monitoring.

Dictatorship forms okay without it.

More overt surveillance is a civil maintainer. Taiwan has camera surveillance everywhere and solves above 90% crime.

It used to surprise me how in denial people can be about their own localities' surveillance. Now I think that makes sense as a consequence of the surveillance mostly being covert.