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by DethNinja 2143 days ago
Are you serious? Here are some disadvantages:

If you got connections to government, you can steal trade secrets from companies and enrich yourself and destroy the competition.

Destroy the lives of your political opponents by blackmailing.

Analyse and control the public sentiment to crush minorities.

I recommend you read a bit of stasi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

Also Bill Gates wants full government control because he is practically within the circles of government, obviously he would benefit from such agreements, but same cannot be said for plebs.

Anyhow, even if people like Bill Gates might benefit from such undemocratic agreements, tide can always turn against them and this level of censorship and surveillance can be used against them even more effectively than that is currently used againsts plebeians.

1 comments

All these points already exist today and for a long time.