I encourage everyone to set aside personal feelings around January 6 for a moment and once again look at the amount of power an angry government can bring to bear on a protest movement retroactively, using the permanent record created by social media surveillance as a weapon.https://twitter.com/_MAArgentino/status/1431319316956385283 …
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To be clear, it's just the surveillance ability itself that troubles you, not the fact that the government is "angry" or that this particular event was arguably a "protest"? You'd be as upset if similar data was used to investigate, say, a kidnapping?
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I mean what I said upthread, that the existence of a permanent algorithmically searchable record tips changes the balance of power in favor of the state. That is a significant change whose long-term implications are not clear.
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Maybe a good comparison would be electronic library records. Librarians fought hard to make government access difficult, despite it p having been reviously easy when the records was on paper, in the back of every book and easily seen (but not efficiently at scale).
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