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feral witchchild wrote:When I say I have nothing to hide I mean that I don't have any connections to questionable arab groups/states, nor am I on some hateful/violent shit. Nor do I sell drugs (and even if I did, why the fuck would I talk about it on the internet?) nor encourage violence against anyone. In a way, I hope this shit helps the governments of the world bag up, for example, all the White supremacist idiots who actually plan out, you know, widespread killings of colored people in the event of any kind of major crisis which could severely disrupt the law enforcement infrastructure of the nations they pollute. There are websites and forums with guides for racist white people, who are literally planning this kind of shit out but of course, brown people from OTHER countries are somehow a bigger threat. -_-

Preemptive strike has never been the answer, it's too easy to abuse. See the Iraq war. People should be arrested for crimes they committed, not the ones they might. In what instance have governments not abused powers like these to their advantage?

I don't interpret the problem being about 'well, I have nothing to hide, so who cares?', more about 'why am I not allowed to decide for myself what I do want to share in public and what I don't?'

Furthermore, what's the most troubling is the floodgates it opens for invasions on people's privacy. When such surveillance is fine, why isn't it fine to directly install cameras in your home? People, by nature, tend to wanna stretch arbitrary lines to their advantage as much as they want. I think it's best, for practicality's sake (if not morally), to keep the the government's eye on public places and outside of people's homes.

feral witchchild wrote:

hurlingdervish wrote: i don't care for conspiracies, what i do care for is being able to search on the internet and not get fucked for it

Of course I realize that that's part of what this kind of thing would entail. My point is, do you really think the governments of the world could afford to imprison anyone and everyone who searches for questionable things on the internet? Even if they would like to.

Central banking? The Federal Reserve funded the Iraq war.

They're imprisoning people for smokin' the ganj or poppin' pills, causing prisons to be overcrowded in the first place... I don't see why they would stop there.