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Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co... by balabaster on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:55AM (#21683486)
The flip side of the coin is that kids learn from a very early age what it takes to slip past the surveillance net. The smart ones watch everyone around them get caught for infractions. Taking note. Quietly gathering data. Towing the line, purposely being caught for the occasional minor infraction so as not to appear too good to be true. Until one day, they disappear from prison in the middle of a storm and take the entire foreman's investment portfolio with them.

Oh wait, I think there was a movie about this...

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Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co... by Joe-Z on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:01PM (#21684249)
Then most people are still living in a surveillance dystopia / prison to stick with your analogy

I‘d rather not be in prison than hoping I‘m the chosen one who gets out

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Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co... by jessaustin on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:32PM (#21686550)
This scenario ends up being fairly elitist. Everyone should be free, and not everyone can crawl to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine -- or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields; just shy of half a mile.
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Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co... by madengr on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:45PM (#21684718)
My daughters teacher was monitoring her and her friend instant-messaging each other on school issued laptops.

The got around it by using a Google doc to chat in real-time.

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Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co... by shantly on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:04PM (#21684933)
Google-Docs-as-chat is extremely common in schools. Tons of schools use Google docs so they're not blocked, permissions (who you can bring to a doc) are usually wide-open, and monitoring's non-existent if you don't attract attention.
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Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co... by ghostpepper on Monday December 02, 2019 @11:30AM (#21683918)
What movie is it? I would watch it.
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Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co... by redslazer on Monday December 02, 2019 @11:40AM (#21684034)
Shawshank Redemption
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