This is in India, but coming soon to a country near you

It came here first

Just wait until we develop psychic powers.

Let’s see how private your thoughts will be then.

This is just to get us accustomed to the idea that privacy will be nonexistent at some point.

Fuck that. RFK wants me to work on his plantations for daring to be born with autism.

Estonia just sentenced a political activist to 14 years for treason for challenging the EU’s collective suicidal warmongering Russophobia propaganda. Political parties that are against NATO are being persecuted, and having election results overturned with a ban of the winners, even while “legitimate right wing parties” adopt racists laws that were part of the “illegitimate right wing party” platform.

If you have a view that your ruling establishment could have better policies, you are a threat to them. Because you have a good idea. Having nothing to hide means accepting the full supremacy of the establishment, which also means full acceptance of any corruption or mere unoptimalies. The US, with the highest pretenses of free speech, is openly targeting visas and citizens for sentiment against the new ultra fascist establishment.

You have everything to hide, if you’d like to do something right.

This goes for the supreme court too, right?

Ugh, so tired of this old argument. Nothing to hide doesn’t mean everything to show. There, now let’s get on with our lives.

You have nothing to hide?

I used to work in advertising.

I was just doing my job, and striving to do it well, to the very best of my abilities, to serve my client, by maximally getting into your mind, manipulating you, manipulating your perceptions, your preferences, your purchases, by insidiously shaping your associations and implanting suggestions you would not realise happening.

This was over 20 years ago, before Bill Hicks saved me by telling me to kill myself, and I left advertising for good, promising to never do it again.

The things I would have done to you, without your ken, had I then had access to the data-mining available today… … just the same as those who are still in advertising are doing to you now. [And the resources my team of 2 had, were miniscule, compared to those with millions and billions to invest, and we still managed to shape the culture and prevailing perceptions, so think what kind of influence they have…]

Nothing to hide?

Sure, let advertisers know everything about you, to ease their way playing you like a puppet without you realising.

Nothing to hide?

Why are you not walking around naked then? Just thermal regulation? Or to preserve your dignity? By preserving your privacy? Are you sure you have nothing to hide? If still sure, by all means, invite every perverted voyeur into your bathroom and bedroom and beyond.

You surely have at least two things to hide.

Not hiding them does not just harm you and cause you loss, it harms everybody else too. Your duty to poke big brother (or big baron or big bot or big blight or big bully or big bank) in the eye, is not just to yourself. It’s to everybody, each and all.

You have much to hide.

One of many countries who have recently decided that basic liberty is more trouble than it’s worth. Our governments all just need to admit that we are engaged in informational WW3.

Ok so let’s get those files and only redact the victims

Cool. Let me install these cameras in your house, including your bedroom and bathrooms. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear

What about if a person working for the public sector contacts a journalist about corruption? Or if a nurse contacts a journalist on how bad a hospital (owned by public sector) is controlled? Are those things that are worth hiding? And how should a normal person hide it if everything is monitored?

And what about the future? Even if it is currently legal to be positive to radical ideas such as trans-people, immigration or environment, how will they ensure that a future government doesn’t make one of those things illegal and then comes after people who endorsed the radical idea?

The Stasi said the same thing, and similar levels of surveillance are significantly cheaper now.

I presume they’re okay with the first surveillance cameras being in their bedrooms then.

A lot of countries are increasingly overreaching with privacy. There is global-wide coordination going on that we haven’t seen since the leftist international during Cold War, but this time it’s coming from the right.

I’d like to go to one of their houses and tell them I want to search the place. After all, they shouldn’t mind if they have nothing to hide, right?