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by stonepresto 1586 days ago
> so your secret agencies can harvest all the data from everyone easily

The thing is, I don’t think the people who work at those agencies would want this either, except for maybe law enforcement. It’s the bureaucrats who think it’s a good idea, everyone else knows it’s a shite one. It’s an utter farce.

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I think more are for it, than you believe.

Someone in such an agency believes they act for the greater good. To watch, aides in protecting society from bomber, insurrection, threat.

They see themselves as noble, and likely most are.

The problem here is misuse, and the scope of information. While the majority behave acceptably, agency culture, and political leanings become a trap.

And so the noble use, becomes corrupted. And because the person believes themselves to be good, who they work for is surely good, and so the work done must be good.

Just look at all the devs working at facebook Do they see themselves as evil? Causing civil wars, breakdown of societal cohesion for profit, destruction for stock price?

No.

They see themselves as non-evil. They see what they do as non-evil, because of <reasons>.