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    4 days ago

    The scariest thing about our surveillance culture is how we internalize it and change our behaviour without even realizing it. The other scariest thing is that it stops us talking to one another, so that we can never organize to improve the dystopia we live in.

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      4 days ago

      Snowden told everybody in 2013 that they already possessed a panopticon. Imagine how much better it is now. And just in time for fascism!

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        3 days ago

        No, he didn’t.

        He specifically always made special effort to tell people that we have tools to communicate securely because they do not have a panopticon.

        What Snowdon blew the whistle on was that they were trying to build an illegal panopticon