Comment by yard2010
3 days ago
In Amsterdam 1850 the municipality kept track of people's names, address, age, gender and religion (bevolkingsregister). It meant nothing at this time, but 90 years later the Nazi used these lists to murder jewish people going house by house. Thanks for the partisans setting this archive ablaze, life were saved.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, you tell me, I just want to point at this random timeline.
I shudder when I think of how effective the Stasi would have been in the digital age. The only thing checking them was the labour demands of surveillance.
When Trump came into power a second time, and the ICE-nazification became apparent, I reached out to my government and asked them what they were doing to make it harder for "Trumpism" to happen here. No reply. Just crickets.
Hoovering up less data would be a really fucking good start. There's something about babies and bathwater, but by god this has proven to be very dangerous bathwater time and time again.