Tag: mass surveillance
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They spy on everyone. What scale is moral?
In 2013, Edward Snowden shattered the illusion that mass surveillance was a paranoid fantasy. Instead of a few targeted programs, he revealed an entire global machine. It watched leaders, allies, rivals, journalists, and ordinary people alike. Therefore, the real debate is not whether spying exists—it clearly does. Rather, the question is: what scale of spying…
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They cherish privacy: How mass espionage threatens democracy
They say they cherish privacy. Yet they conduct mass espionage. Governments and corporations claim to protect personal data. At the same time, they monitor, collect, and store information on an unprecedented scale. Privacy is a privilege for the elite, while the public remains under constant surveillance. Furthermore, the expansion of digital technology has enabled an…
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Nationalize Big Tech: Redirecting the highest IQs to serve society
Big Tech dominates modern life. Their ideology is moral nihilism, prioritizing profit and control over ethical considerations or social responsibility. As a result, it controls what people see, what they buy, and how they communicate. Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta shape economies and political discourse. Google, once known for its laughable ‘Don’t be evil’…
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Mass surveillance and AI: no longer a needle in a haystack
The NSA’s mass surveillance programs that extend all over the globe have been a target of criticism. Even former contractors, employees, and, of course, other critics pointed out that data collection is so huge. It is big so finding some useful information is like finding a needle in a haystack. However, mass surveillance in combination…
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How are the US and Russia similar?
The heading cannot be more counterintuitive. No freedom of speech, arbitrary arrests, unbelievable corruption, authoritarian regime. But still – how are the US and Russia similar? In my article, you will find similarities, yet please note this: They may not be proportionally the same, even though they can be found on a huge level in…
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The US super-rich groups may be good. But at what cost?
The super-rich families ruling the US, which is something evidence-based, may act to benefit the US citizens. I guess you think I have gone mad again. No, the US super-rich groups may really be useful. In this article, I will present what are the benefits and negatives of the ruling forces of the US. When…
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The establishment has control over us it never had
No doubt politicians, media, and their puppet masters had always the intention to control their respective populations. But now the establishment has control over us it never had. Post letters interceptions, authoritarian rule, ideologies, propaganda, surveillance, police control, political persecution. You may object some of it is not happening now. And you are right. They…
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Supressing dissent in the age of Orwell
Totalitarian and autocratical regimes have a lot of experience with supressing dissent . I was born in the democratical Czechoslovakia (the nowadays Czech Republic). And people had a lot to say about how well the communists were good at oppressing dissidents and opposite opinions, stances and attitudes. However, the current Western world’s establishment, no matter…