Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
i dont know. i think th technology available opens up the policing of thought and speech in a way that wasn't possible before.
what do you think the main thing is?
"Control" (pace Burroughs)
I guess the very scary thing about technology, particularly information technology that's become available to the mass public over the last 15 years or so (mobile phones, the internet, and the gradual convergence of the two) is that to a lot of people, it doesn't look that threatening. It's either useful, because it allows them to do their job, or simply fun, because they can use it to socialise, play games, look at photos etc. It's not necessarily obvious that it can be used as a tool of state (and corporate) control.
Whereas in the past, the technology of oppression was obviously invasive - spies and inquisitors everywhere; and aggressive - show trials, mass imprisonments, torture, public executions, 'disappearances'. Not that these things don't still go on, and sometimes with the collusion of the governments of developed, 'democratic' countries - but they're not the things that come to mind when you're looking at your privacy settings on facebook.
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