Hitler killed people he thought were Jews.
Stalin killed people he thought were class enemies.
Mao killed people he thought were counter revolutionaries.
Pol Pot killed people he thought were intellectuals.
Add it up: 20th century governments killed roughly 200M of their own citizens.
They did all that relying on paper records, informants, and guesswork.
Now imagine those regimes with modern tech: Flock cameras, location data, and facial recognition.
20th century dictators had to hunt.
Future dictators will just look at a dashboard.
Absolute power corrupts. Absolute surveillance automates it. Burn it all down now, or suffer the consequences later.
GM - Flock says they have a 7% error rate when reading plates, which means 1.4 BILLION "alerts" from their system aren't accurate every month.
No liability for Flock, just 1.4 billion chances police draw guns on another innocent person.
We seal envelopes not because the letter contains a conspiracy, but because the contents belong exclusively to the sender and the receiver.
The "nothing to hide" argument is pure corporate/state propaganda. Privacy isn't about hiding a crime; it's about deciding who gets access to your life. It’s a boundary of power, not a shield for guilt.
@NoGodJustHumans@constitutissui@anarchojaQ That verbiage held a meaning moreso indicating well trained- as equivalent to military powers. You know, like how "the people" needed when they had to stand up to tyranny.
Interpreting this to mean regulate firearms is intellectually lazy at best.