Duh, what do you think we were building for the last 10 years? Does anyone with two brain cells think that corporate surveillance wasn't going to be co-opted by authoritarianism?

The only people who didn't understand this were either delusional or being paid not to.

Well I didn't expect the leopards to eat _my_ face.

Yes, some people really didn't expect that billionaires without any moral compass would do this...

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I’m not sure that’s fair, the majority of the American population are pretty dumb due to the poor education system. Most weren’t alive for WW2 so they’ve not come very close to an authoritarian threat in the past either.