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Mass automated data collection and automated analysis are probably the biggest threat to freedom in the present day.

And here I was thinking that flooding the zone with fascist bullshit, an office that's entirely above scrutiny, and their violent, unaccountable private army was the biggest threat to it.

The thing with government is the good ones always disappoint you and the bad ones never fail to be worse than you expect. Regardless of your feelings about the present administration you need to make sure the framework is there to protect against the next.

Funny, when I watch the news I see freedom being taken away by authoritarians, not people tracking who complains about window seats, or what pizza place you like best.

How exactly do you think those authoritarians are identifying whose freedoms are to be taken away? Or do you think all of the datamining and Palantir contracts are for lolz? Two sides of the same coin.

> How exactly do you think those authoritarians are identifying whose freedoms are to be taken away?

Pretty easily. Do you look sort of like their enemy of the week?

That's all the excuse they need to grab you.

They don't actually give a shit about being accurate in that identification. Accuracy in repression isn't the goal. The goal is a visible, public show of force.

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