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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by zentiggr on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:48PM (#16477168)
> I'm fine with societies experimenting with more surveillance with the aim of improving people's behavior.

If only that surveillance didn't open up avenues for exploitation, targeting, and suppression even more.

And I'm pretty sure we've got a little too much "cpmpliance" monitoring as we are right now... I'm ready for ALPRs, Stingrays, and a bunch of other LEO practices to get curtailed or even stopped outright.

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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by jjaredsimpson on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:22PM (#16478056)
We can't only experiment with structures and tools that have only upside positive consequences.

The existence of a bad outcome is something to be avoided and guarded against, but I don't see why any possible tool which has a potential to be abused should be avoided.

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