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hoolstoptheheels

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I'm optimistic that we won't.


The surveillance capabilities already exist, by and large, and get steadily more sophisticated. But the US has lots of safeguards about how that data can be used. And lots of ways for people to challenge it.

We're living in a country currently being run by a wannabe dictator, and he isn't even allowed to block haters on his Twitter feed, much less destroy their lives for hating. That's not to say we don't have challenges galore as privacy concepts change with technology, but that is a far cry from Big Brother. This article is about 1984 coming to life.

When Trump gets voted out and refuses to leave and actually succeeds, or if he uses some pretext to declare emergency powers, then I'll worry. And hurry across the border to Canada before they build the wall to keep me out. Hope they have good food, wifi and satellite TV in their refugee camps!

(In response to this post by Hokie5150)

Posted: 09/20/2018 at 10:56AM



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