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by Manuel_D 120 days ago
Imagine dang wrote a script to delete every HN comment that contains the string "velociraptor". Under your logic, this involves surveiling every HN commenter. This is true in the pedantic sense that every comment posted to the site would be checked for "velociraptor".

But most people understand the word "surveillance" to mean more involved information collection than just deleting content that matches certain criteria.