Re:North Korean Tactics (2020) [pdf]
by foxyv on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:18PM
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I wonder if workers at IBM prior to World War II would say the same about the holocaust. Something as simple as period tracking apps can be turned against people. Sure it starts off as a marketing department, then it moves on to a domestic surveillance program for terrorism, and then you are rounding up people who get abortions and miscarry. After that, who knows? Gays? Atheists?
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Re:North Korean Tactics (2020) [pdf]
by ARandomerDude on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:46PM
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Agreed, and it doesn't just go one direction politically. Totalitarian governments hunted and killed Christians and capitalists with tremendous zeal throughout the 20th century.
This isn't really about left/right, it's about power. Governments simply can't be trusted with the power to track and target dissidents at scale.
We nerds are to a great extent the modern gatekeepers of that power. If people ask you to track and suppress free speech don't do it. It starts there.