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user-inactivated · 3574 days ago · link · · parent · post: Stephen Fry on surveillance: there is something squalid and rancid about being spied on - video
Have any of you ever felt the results of being stared down by a person that could easily hurt you? It is an anxiety response to the predator/prey nature of our existence. Surveillance recreates that generalized anxiety response among entire populations. Nation/states use that to squelch sedition before the fact just as much as the collection of the actions and words of those surveilled is later used to railroad any dissent. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. -(mis)attributed to Cardinal Richelieu