Right? Who honestly didn't think these devices would be used to spy on them and their homes? Even after reports of third party contractors listening to people having sex made headlines people continued to buy and keep them.

Just like some people need to touch a hot stove to learn they need to be careful some people will just refuse to accept anything bad is happening to them until they see it with their own eyes and surveillance capitalism exploits that by keeping the harms so removed from the collection of private data that most people will never accept the connection even after they're told about what's happening.

"In the future they will carry their telescreens with them, even into the bathroom."

1984 but we chose it instead of it being forced on us.

Brave New World.

Fahrenheit 451 has whole rooms full of screens with, I think, virtual/pretend people that people enjoy talking to.

Not only did we choose it, we felt lucky to be alive in a time where we were afforded the privilege to purchase it

The Stasi or the KGB would have loved to install listening devices into everyone's homes, so they can monitor everyone. And here we are, people are voluntarily doing it. It's like a dream come true, just a few decades too late.

The ting is that probaly the most interesting individuals to them wouldn’t get those devices at home or at sensitive places.

During COVID there were a lot of (mostly right wing) conspiracy theories about Bill Gates sneaking nano-chips into vaccines. These same people went on to support the world’s richest wanker who literally owns a company intent on human microchip implantation. Up is down, black is white, spheres are flat…Humid sacks of rice, bats and hogs sniffing each other, massive stereos