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In reply to the discussion: Game to destroy CCTV cameras: vandalism or valid protest? [View all]PATRICK
(12,227 posts)The issue of the incidents that spurred officials to get me some CCTV was public protection. Some of these have precisely to with mechanization and tech supplanting cops on the beat. Prevention? In the worst or smartest cases no. The same for later discovery. behind every camera is a single human judgment, also downsized to the point of incapacity, some ongoing robbed peter principle continually proving the main point. Reducing protection by too little government service can't be replaced by gimmicks in the hands of even fewer, more remote and less accountable controlers even if they use smarter software(non-humans) to prune and weed the mountains of real time data. The big picture about the big de-privacy is that no real problem is very much helped. In most cases the real problem goes begging, new and worse and more expensive problems are created enhancing only the Big Brother level. The solution can be(who knows?) more ineffectual but it creates universal and communal oppression under the eye of secret observers. That it does automatically and without fail.
Paper ballots, boots on the ground. Labor and resource intensive, but the modern solutions are suspect and no real answer. A universal hi-tech Stazi for whom and for what?
I have no comment on the gaming of rebellion. That too is a side result of the dangerous universal spy foolishness. Our greatest threats remain totally unaffected by institutionally moderated tech spying because often those threats are behind the cameras. The threats I am speaking of might be said to be the actual cause and sponsor of the dreaded terrorist anyway. As for wild cards needing psychiatric care, trying getting any universal program to pay for that.