[Lawtonfogle]

It is going to be really fun when being third party becomes a crime. When protesting the nth + 1 extension of the Disney protection laws become a crime. When having an unapproved relationship becomes a crime. When failing to report your family for their criminal actions becomes a crime.

[arca_vorago]

This is what most people, even HN users, seem to fail to grasp about this slippery slope we find ourselves hurtling down. The surveillance engine is about control (not security), and as that "control" pervads more and more spaces previously reserved to the individual, I see, given current trajectory, no other end state than pre-crime and thought-crime becoming a reality.