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by vjvjvjvjghv 17 days ago
Today is a totally different scale. The German stasi needed a huge amount of people to handle all the incoming data and a lot of it fell through anyways l. Today you just throw a lot of compute at it and nothing can escape.

Yes you always had people snitching on each other but it was inefficient and hard to centralize. Today is different.