You've been posting a lot unsubstantive, uncivil, or flamebait comments. We've asked you already to please stop, and we'll ban the account if you won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If somebody doesn't want to influence you, they don't surveil you. The contraposition is more revealing; If somebody surveils you, then they do it to influence you.

Thank you for this. It's the natural extension of "you need to track what you want to change" at a personal level.

Which country has an "oppressive liberal government" at the moment?