[ExI] The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 4:37 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
>
> > This article makes a classic error: just because it is possible to do
> this to one individual at some cost, it assumes the government
> > is doing this to everyone.  This assumption ignores the massive cost to
> do this to literally everyone in the United States of
> > America, let alone the rest of the world.  Even the government sometimes
> does cost/benefit analyses and declines to implement stuff
> > that's massively costly for not enough benefit to it; tracking everyone
> all of the time is one such thing.
>
> Au contrare, with governments, we know that _if_ there is a chance that
> something will be abused, or used to gain more power, it will be done.


Not in every case, regardless of the cost.

Therefore the mere possibility is enough to argue that the capability
> should be shut down and destroyed.
>

Necessity aside, how would you make sure it is destroyed, and not merely
classified so we no longer hear of it?  At least today, we know of and can
maybe counter it when necessary.
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