Remember in 2012 how everyone was horrified when an authoritarian government like China forced everyone to disclose their identities to get online so they could track and censor them?
The joke of the China comparison was that we had a bunch of libertarians screaming “We can’t have social services! The government will weaponize them against us and track everything we say and do!!! Public healthcare, public transit, public education, public utilities - they’re all a slippery slope to the Police State, just like in China!”
And now we get all the same mass surveillance via privatized channels, while libertarians seem to have fully clammed up (when they aren’t quietly cheering on psychopaths like RFK Jr). But we get none of the public amenities. Yay… love my Freedom™
Remember in 2012 how everyone was horrified when an authoritarian government like China forced everyone to disclose their identities to get online so they could track and censor them?
Now the authoritarians are here.
The joke of the China comparison was that we had a bunch of libertarians screaming “We can’t have social services! The government will weaponize them against us and track everything we say and do!!! Public healthcare, public transit, public education, public utilities - they’re all a slippery slope to the Police State, just like in China!”
And now we get all the same mass surveillance via privatized channels, while libertarians seem to have fully clammed up (when they aren’t quietly cheering on psychopaths like RFK Jr). But we get none of the public amenities. Yay… love my Freedom™
Anyone who frequents reddit every day is a fucking coward.