Entire generations of people who were never alive to remember a world where their every movement and utterance was not being tracked by the advertising/surveillance industrial complex.

It's just considered normal now. The west is very sick.

▲ normalaccess 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You spelled world wrong. China has their social credit, EU has their cameras, America has Palantir, Starlink has internet everywhere, 5G can be used as radar, age verification is being deployed globally, ect... Babylon reborn.

Edit: UK not EU

	▲	alecco 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		UK: hold my beer...

▲ railgunmerlin 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are we pretending this isn't a global phenomenon?

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	▲	idiotsecant 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Of course all governments want to control every move and thought of their citizens. It makes governing easier. We expect that in autocracies. I don't know about The West as a bloc, but at least the USA was supposed to have respect for the basic individualistic privacy and freedom of the average citizen. We've allowed that to largely evaporate. The differences between the US and something like the PRC are rapidly eroding. Don't get me wrong, the US is still an order of magnitude more free but you can see a future where the trend lines are converging.
	▲	mc32 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		In many ways the west is copying what the East and the Middle East are doing. It’s quite concerning that democratic governments and their electorate are going with it, but to be “fair” this seems to be a somewhat orchestrated global phenomenon. Of course it’s not good.
	▲	rdevilla 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Overseas, cash is king. In Canada, and also in San Francisco, you can only tap your credit card because cash carries COVID [0]. [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cash-coronavirus-questions-an...

▲ bigyabai 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

  That wisdom will not be much comfort to babies born last week. The first news they get in this world will be News subjected to Military Censorship. That is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of deliberately-planted "Dis-information." That is routine behavior in Wartime -- for all countries and all combatants -- and it makes life difficult for people who value real news.

When War Drums Roll, Hunter S. Thompson, https://www.espn.com/page2/s/thompson/010918.html