Comment by _jab
1 month ago
Completely agree.
Crazier question: what’s wrong with a well-intentioned surveillance state? Preventing crime is a noble goal, and sometimes I just don’t think some vague notion of privacy is more important than that.
I sometimes feel that the tech community would find the above opinion far more outlandish than the general population would.
> what’s wrong with a well-intentioned surveillance state?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire
tl;dw: A well-intentioned surveillance state may, in fact, love the beings they are surveilling. They may fall in love so deeply, that they want to become like us. I know it's a revolutionary concept.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with the panopticon. Your society is what makes it good or evil.