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I don’t think this is a fair treatment of anyone.

Total surveillance, which we are talking about here, is extremely damaging to the subject, eventually all their dirty secrets will be out, legal and illegal.

I also argue that allowing the state to monitor its citizens fundamentally changes it closer a state I don’t want to exist. Nothing good can come out a surveillance state, no matter how small.



The point is that this way the public doesn't have to protest against it.

The politicians and civil servants will do that for us, which is what we are paying them for anyway: to work for us.

This way they'll think twice if they really want this to get started.


Yes, I understood the point. I don’t think it’s a good idea.




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