Comment by Santosh83
1 day ago
I think you may have got it backwards? Technology seems to be greatly facilitating fascist control rather than weakening them...
1 day ago
I think you may have got it backwards? Technology seems to be greatly facilitating fascist control rather than weakening them...
I think you hit the nail on the head.
The original problem with The Panopticon was that it was 1 person in the center observing X amount of people. And at best, was a probabilistic 'am I being watched right now? ' with the answer of very low probability. For complete surveillance, you'd need a surveiller per watched.
Enter technology.
Now the surveillance isn't a person, but a set of computer programs. And, optimizing and analyzing the limited data flow out of a user is doable.
And you then have computational spies everywhere. Most of them are limited to specific usecases. However the more data is shared, the tighter fascist control can be maintained. Then it just comes to 'detected event' and 'summon the secret police'.
Not only that, a fascist state can identify people who are 'politically undesirable', then go back through the mountain of data held by private companies (facebook, google, chatbots, etc), trawl it to automatically create a dossier of kompromat, and apply pressure, repress voter turnout, etc.
Isn't China already doing something like this?
and the western countries
this is on point. I tell this people since years. "if you share more data they have easyer acces to controll you"