Things I would like hubski's thoughts on: How? Taken in conjunction with the below snippet his statement is really interesting and powerful. Is this inevitable? Is he being dramatic? Might surveillance equally be said to foment rebellion and mistrust of authority?The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. That it would empower people to band together to work against oppression. That it would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn’t otherwise get to know in completely free and unconstrained ways. And what has happened instead is that we face the threat that it’s the exact opposite—that instead the Internet could become the most potent and odious tool of human control and oppression in human history.
Surveillance breeds conformity.