{"title": "Surveillance Harms 1000 Times More Than It Helps", "timestamp": 1731752408.015687, "description": "It is abhorrent to be living in times where political structures poised into existence on ideas of Liberty advocate for removal of essential Freedoms. United States and Europe both have their form of \"chat control\" currently being debated. And country leaders see in this total mass-stalking nothing but a tool to fight some, scary sounding form of possible oppression. They've convinced the public that they are right, so much that when we are trying to come up with a reason of why what they are doing is wrong, we fail even to start the train of thought. Their justification appears to be solid. It appears that there is nothing to do, but to shut up, agree and do nothing about it. Today I am about to shutter their arguments once and for all.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. 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In realtime. It's absolutely not private.\r\n\r\nI wish I could walk around with my eyes shut. That way I could better respect the privacy of all the people there."}, {"text": "\u05e4\u05d0\u05e7\u05d9\u05e0\u05d2 \u05d2'\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05d0\u05e1", "username": "Uriel_Cohen"}, {"text": "@Uriel_Cohen Thank you. You are a mad hacker yourself.", "username": "blenderdumbass"}, {"text": "I don't believe its ignorance. I think its a combination of willful ignorance which is a sign of corruption, and being plain fraudsters.\r\n\r\nWhat I would say is prison takes away almost all freedoms, not just one.\r\n\r\n-\r\n\r\nThere is a LOT to be said for 'sortition' today. Senates need to be made of *completely* random citizens. It would take the money out of politics almost completely. Most politicians are put in place by corporations, and there is a very problematic revolving door, and other cases of corporate capture of politicians that make them terrible leaders.\r\n\r\nI would argue that 'sortition' IS the natural justification of a senate, and that the only reason we have a senate is that in ancient greece, when the senate was comprised of regular random people, it seemed to act as a good countervailing force. And so they *had* to be included in electoral systems for them to be considered \"democratic\". Think about it, *what* is the real point of having two houses of the legislative branch, if you pick people from the same family to be on both? There is *no* point, and I think that's the point.\r\n\r\nThe laws that were rushed through in Australia this past week during the festive season with respect to banning under 16 year olds from social platforms and requiring age verification online to achieve this proported aim, shows just how demented so-called \"democracy\" has become in the West.\r\n\r\nThis 'managed democracy' is *NOT* democracy, and I see sortition as the only path forward to clawing back not only democracy but basic freedoms.\r\n\r\nYes, they operate just like a jury but of course they don't need to reach a consensus... and yes, just like a jury to make an informed decision they need to *be seen by the public* to be presented with all the relevant facts and data in relation to whatever law is being proposed.\r\n\r\nSortition is how we claw our way out from these crimes against us, imo.", "username": "Sortition now"}, {"id": 4, "activitypub": "https://mastodon.online/users/troler/statuses/114663512824315411", "username": "@troler@mastodon.online", "text": "[@blenderdumbass](https://blenderdumbass.org/account/blenderdumbass) The article tells the truth"}]}, "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/Surveillance_Harms_1000_Times_More_Than_It_Helps", "hashtags": ["Privacy", "Law", "Philosophy", "Freedom", "Math"]}