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It’s about control, not fear.

Nobody is consenting to it out of fear.



I disagree. Fear is the tool authoritarians use to control people. First they make you fear the other, then they make you fear their force.

When your fear the other the consent is internal.


You control people by instilling fear.

Anybody can merely force someone else to do something. I can, you can. That's small fry stuff.

The real ticket is getting people to do the things you want with no force. Convincing them to act against their own interests. Now, thats much harder, and that's the type of thing the big dogs are looking at.


Do you mean about the folks with Ring cameras needing to feel control over their environment, and feeling like giving access to the Police/Flock/ICE will help gain that sort of control?




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