How do we the citizens fight these laws? They are bipartisan and get shoved through the pipeline so quickly that rights groups don't even have time to react, never mind the electorate.
Domestic surveillance seems to be an example of where democracy is completely circumvented.
>This is the way it is and it's gotta be the way it is because that's the way it is.
Everyone generally agrees about how it is. The discussion is about how it should be.
We're talking about the kind of people who seriously say that the laws of mathematics don't hold weight in their jurisdiction. You can't defend that level of ignorance by just claiming it's not workable to have competent lawmakers.
Their goal is not to make the web useful for you, it's to make the web useful for themselves by manipulating what information you're exposed to.
It is the mind-control wet dream. Google is guiding people to ideas that they like and preventing people from being exposed to those they don't. If you think that the Gun Rights thing is some kind of freak accident, consider that they also started outright censoring guns in the shopping page, with hilarious side effects like also censoring water guns.
When talking about a multinational conglomerate that hires the world's best engineers, do not ever mistake malice for incompetence.
> What would the social credit score of Ghandi or Martin Luther Kind have been, at the time of their prominent actions?
Their scores would be low. That's the whole point of these systems. Surveillance and these metrics were never about making the world a better place, they're about identifying threats to the status quo so that they can be neutralized before they become impactful. A government's definition of 'terrorist' or 'threat' is not some shady guy that wants to blow up a train station, it's literally anyone who is a credible threat to how the current system runs, anyone who could conceivably change things in a manner not approved by those currently in power. You talk about Martin Luther King, then surely you're aware to what extents the government of the time went to try to shut him down.
All the major governments have invested billions of dollars into studying how uprisings and upsets happen, how to predict them, and how to curb them. The only figures that will now rise to public prominence are those that are vetted by the existing power structure.
Women are not prevented from applying for these jobs, nor are the ads hidden from women. But real-life demographic analysis shows that men are overwhelmingly the qualified demographic for this role.
Advertising to that demographic is not against the law, and it is not discrimination. Forcing employers to waste resources equalizing the advertising efforts across worthless demographics is just fucking stupid. Stop this social justice warrior insanity.
Domestic surveillance seems to be an example of where democracy is completely circumvented.