Dave Smith: "You had the Occupy movement and the Tea Party movement. And then all of these huge publications, all they wanted to talk about was what divides all of them. Whites vs blacks, gays vs straights, trans vs cis."
@Eman_Primes@gkingsventures Nice option from Africa. Any thoughts on the countless civil wars that have happened on your continent in the last 50 years?
You never consented to becoming a data point in a nationwide movement database.
Yet every drive to work, every doctor’s office, every protest, every church, every late-night trip to see family can be logged, stored, searched, and shared… despite you never being suspected of a crime.
The defense is always the same:
“Your license plate is public.”
Seeing something isn’t the same as recording it.
Recording it isn’t the same as indexing it.
Indexing it isn’t the same as building a database of innocent people’s movements.
That doesn’t mean the government should build a permanent record of everywhere you’ve been.
It’s about replacing targeted policing with mass surveillance. Rights don’t disappear because software made surveillance cheap.
If that sentence doesn’t bother you, you’ve accepted something previous generations would have fought to stop.