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by carapace 2403 days ago
> It's hard to imagine how a government set to police the minutiae of everyday life of pretty much a whole continent's worth of humans, can not be antagonistic with the majority of it.

Indeed! But I think it's important to try.

FWIW, I don't postulate that the ubiquitous surveillance is consensual at all, just inevitable. For a lot of people the amount and degree of casual surveillance is already becoming an issue.

I'm saying, if we have to have it, how do we want to manage it?