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Re:Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance o... by DoreenMichele on Saturday March 17, 2018 @02:43PM (#16608383)
It doesn't need to incriminate anyone. It's sufficient to just intimidate everyone into conforming to whatever expectations are laid out. It's actually more corrosive to just prevent any "undesirable" behavior than to catch people who are "guilty."
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Re:Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance o... by blattimwind on Saturday March 17, 2018 @04:21PM (#16608874)
(One of) the key effects here is the chilling effect.
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Re:Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance o... by DoreenMichele on Saturday March 17, 2018 @04:25PM (#16608892)
Yes, you train people to be scared to Google it and then progressively train them to be scared to think about the question for fear that it will somehow leave tracks on the internet that can be found.
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