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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not quite done with the last riot and want a new one it seems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They better riot fast. Normalized camera peeking will change the tone there very quickly.

People will be stuffing their phones into couches or running water and shit, and some AI will be able to detect patterns of surveillance evasion and they won’t even have to do anything official about it just send the surveillance avoider a message in the form of a camera turning to follow them or something like “hey, we noticed you’re being sus”.

And then there will be huge incentive slope toward not avoiding surveillance. So people will have to fall back on hiding their thoughts.

And the mental strain will be enormous. And that will sap their fight.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

Read the article. Title is clickbait. It's only with approval from a judge. You know, alternatively they could just arrest and imprison the person, which is what every country is doing. Not saying it's without worrying, but there's important nuance that most are missing.

P.S.

Absolute extremist attitudes like "nobody should be able" and so on, have absolutely no place in modern society. There's always nuance. Libertarianism doesn't work, and laws must be enforced. It sucks, but when there are forces that want to hurt people and destabilize societies, you can't go by the rule that everyone is a saint. The world will punish this attitude.

Yes, the world isn't perfect, but for ducks sake, quit sensationalizing anecdotes and representing them as "this always happens". That's dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think you solve one problem by introducing another problem. The solution to over-criminalization is to decriminalize things. If a person is a danger to society, charge them with a crime and let a jury of their peers decide their guilt. Hacking into someone's property so that you can spy on them is absolutely not an alternative worth entertaining.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm sure this will go well and will never be abused. I mean, good that doctors, attorneys and MPs are exempt, because fuck the everyman Joe worker. /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What? France? And they're not out burning cars over this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Who looked at the patriot act and thought that was a good idea?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Aww ye! Can't wait to get busted because those bouncing boobies shown in the video am enjoying does not follow the "rights of freedom" written by the law #42069. WOO FREEDOM!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't even jerkoff in peace now without someone watching

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The UK already fell to the multinational capitalist greed machine. Looks like France is falling, too. Any and all means to squash the protest of citizens of the society that might hurt the gdp output of the beloved economy.

Because everyone seems to have forgotten, an economy is supposed to be a tool to better distribute goods and services for the benefit of society. When a society lives in service to, and is harmed for the benefit of the economy, your society is ass backwards.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This is why we need to strip the US gov. of power, before shit like this starts happening (which ik, it kinda already is.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% certainty that the FBI and CIA are already doing this and don't give a shit that it's illegal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah it was a long time ago it came out the FBI can turn on your camera without activating the light.

I just treat them like a captive little audience and torment them with my awful theatrics.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I've never been so happy to have the ability to root my phone and flash a new OS onto it. This shit is absolutely insane, I'm surprised there isn't more eyes on this from non-profits globally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've never been so happy to have the ability to root my phone and flash a new OS onto it.

Worry not, citizen! Soon they'll make that illegal too. :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What the fuck, France.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How would they technically implement this?

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