With this tech in place, the government doesn't have to put you in jail. They can do something more sinister. They can just email you a sexy picture you took with a girlfriend. Or they can email you a note saying that they can prove your dad is cheating on his taxes. Or they can threaten to get your dad fired. All you have to do, the email says, is help them catch your friends in the group. You have to report back every week, or you dad might lose his job. So you do. You turn in your friends and even though they try to keep meetings off grid, you're reporting on them to protect your dad.

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"The War on Terrorism" is basically an excuse to spy on citizens in order to make money off corporate interests and to keep citizens "in order". Imagine, everyone knows that if they make one step out of line the whole government will know, and its straight to jail. This will allow a dramatic increase in stupid laws because they would be a lot easier to prove that they have been breached. This would allow every citizen to carefully watch out, imagine being so scared of the man that you would have to rigorously change every activity you participate in to avoid run in with the law, it fucking scares the hell out of me.

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