“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,” he writes to any parents reading his post. “Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity, living so that being seen costs you nothing. And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways.”

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    Both ways? Ok, let’s see the billionnaire while he’s on the toilet. Let’s see how exactly he fuels anti-labour movements. Let’s see how corrupt he is. Let’s see how he must be made to be unbillionnaire’d. Let’s know every single minute of his life. Let’s block asset and person access to offshore islands and his creephouses.

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      And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways

      So it’s top-down by default, and if the underclass fights hard enough, they míght get a “trust me bro, this is all data there is, and we certainly didn’t destroy any”.

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        The Epstein class is corrupt. Only all those that recognise class struggle are legit. That is, those that support the labourers in their opposition against coal and oil industry, against trusts and wage theft. Whether queer or not, the capitalist attempts to pit one against another while they attempt to drown us in the pit of climate collapse. But they too shall fail, as we unite, share, help one another, and bring down the corrupt fascist oligarchs.

        Trump should get the treatment of Maduro. All coal, gas, and oil CEOs should be thrown into their own field pits.

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    Celebrities and politicians are simultaneously the most-watched and poorest-behaved people on the planet tho

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      No it’s sycophancy. He knows what he is saying, it’s an agenda he is pushing. One that benefits the rich. He is either that or thinks he will be looked after by them.

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    If that were the case then people would be so well behaved considering that people post everything to social media nowadays.

    Or maybe this psychopathic piece of shit knows HE would behave if he was being monitored again pricing that every accusation is really just a confession?

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    Not better; different. They behave the way the people doing the watching want them to behave. Whether that’s better is purely situational, and that (among others) is why global surveillance is a bad idea.

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      +1. I think what it does, is enforce conformity. Even without authoritarians, there is still a form of tyranny from group pressure. Ppl become less willing to oppose the majority under total surveilence.

      Sometimes, the majority gets things right. Other times, not so much. History is filled with examples. We need room for our MLK Jrs, our Ghandis, our Schindlers, to oppose the norms.

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        Its a well studied phenomena. When watched, people behave more in the way they think they are expected to behave.

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    Okay bud, wire yourself for video and sound and stream it online 24/7 then. Being seen can always cost you something. Doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong. Sometimes what you’re doing is just embarrassing and you’d rather it not be recorded for posterity. People need to start getting their asses beat for voicing shitty opinions like this.

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    There are things outside morality that are subject to shame and judgement. But also freedom can be defined in the ability to make the choices others would like you not to. Mass surveillance aims to enable punishment of freedom.

    And beyond all that, philosophically, there is no virtue without the capacity for vice. Integrity is often described as what you do when nobody’s watching.

    Oh and this mass surveillance is already seriously fucking with everyone’s heads. So many people are living increasingly performatively. Between mass surveillance and social media it’s becoming more and more normal to feel this shame and self consciousness that impairs the ability to just live.

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    Funny how the same standard doesn’t apply to the Epstein class though. Rules for thee, but not for me. Redacted redacted redacted. 🤐