A Surveillance Society Works Both Ways

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[inibo.livejournal.com]

If these were my only two options I'd prefer public humiliation to a bullet or being buggered by Bubba on a nightly basis.

It seems to me if one avoids doing stupid things in public or acting a fool in front of some friend's camera about 95% of the YouTube threat is avoided. The FBI has the option of kick my door in any time they want.

You seem more frightened by freedom than you are of legal thuggery.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Probably because I'd feel bad about shooting a kid with a camera phone.

[inibo.livejournal.com]

Then don't do it.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Point is, I've already decided on the conditions under which I would spend my life to right a wrong committed by an authority figure. My conscience allows no such recourse against nosy kids.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

Have you decided that you'd spend your life in those conditions to right a wrong by an authority figure, if that wrong entailed nothing more than recording something you did in public?

If not, then unless a kid with a cameraphone is going around incarcerating innocent people, this is a little bit apples and oranges.