[zo1]

This is all done by government to effectively disempower the citizens from doing things themselves or in any sort of cooperative manner (even if provably safe etc etc). Oddly enough they turn around and then refuse to protect the citizens from such petty crime.

I'm starting to think it's all a giant "bullshit" test to see how far they can push people's obedience. Or they end up conveniently filtering out the people they don't act obedient to the level of filter they've set with their stupid laws and non-enforcement of existing ones like theft.

[tjoff]

Uh? Is privacy really such a strange concept?

[eternityforest]

They're banning technology mostly because someone could use it for evil, or they believe that's a likely use, or because some people want to create a new level of expectation of privacy that didn't previously seem to exist, at least not that I noticed. CCTV was everywhere for years, and it didn't seem like most of the general public had any issues.

It's not like people want to put up telescope cams into your bathroom, I think most people would be very against that.

Meanwhile they try to take encryption and anonymity tech away from citizens, in those same exact places.