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It's not limited to Europe and the Middle East. This is the technology Orwell, Kazinsky, et al warned us about, and it is in active use (or can be) right this very minute against anyone, anywhere, for any reason.
We keep hearing about this or that starting WWIII, but here it is, right in front of our faces. These technologies represent a global criminal syndicate with the power and capacity to destroy all governments, all peoples, all hopes, peaceful or otherwise, and it's for sale to the highest bidder. It's as real as you are, and it grows more powerful the longer we ignore it, by the hour.
Some will argue that it's a broadside attack against Israel and Israeli technology; that if not Israel, then who/when - a vacuum that would be filled eventually; but, the reality is that it IS Israel and the near-anonymous private b/trillions that have made it viable.
It is the most extreme threat to all people everywhere, except for perhaps those who control it. Even they may be surprised when it collapses civilization itself, because who amongst us will tolerate total governance in near-total absence of any real freedom?
It's not about taking sides, it's about freedom for everyone everywhere, it's about all of our hopes and dreams being usurped by those so named.
This is the most important post we may read in our lifetimes, because our lives are about to quickly become the lives we're permitted to have, if any, by those who control this technology.
Total Information Awareness is here now, so how far away, how long do we have, until total totalitarianism is us? Not much longer if we don't stop this now, if that is even a possibility at this point?
I am a victim of this technology, somehow still alive, if you can call my living in forced poverty and isolation "living", and the things I could tell you would astound your every sensibility. I, for example, have no hope, it being actively taken from me by these technologies and those people behind it, and any effort I expend easily trounced by its near-total control over me.
Totalitarianism-as-a-service exists now. The post from Tor says all, its importance incalculable. We ignore it at total peril to freedom, nay!, to our very reason for being alive.
We keep hearing about this or that starting WWIII, but here it is, right in front of our faces. These technologies represent a global criminal syndicate with the power and capacity to destroy all governments, all peoples, all hopes, peaceful or otherwise, and it's for sale to the highest bidder. It's as real as you are, and it grows more powerful the longer we ignore it, by the hour.
Some will argue that it's a broadside attack against Israel and Israeli technology; that if not Israel, then who/when - a vacuum that would be filled eventually; but, the reality is that it IS Israel and the near-anonymous private b/trillions that have made it viable.
It is the most extreme threat to all people everywhere, except for perhaps those who control it. Even they may be surprised when it collapses civilization itself, because who amongst us will tolerate total governance in near-total absence of any real freedom?
It's not about taking sides, it's about freedom for everyone everywhere, it's about all of our hopes and dreams being usurped by those so named.
This is the most important post we may read in our lifetimes, because our lives are about to quickly become the lives we're permitted to have, if any, by those who control this technology.
Total Information Awareness is here now, so how far away, how long do we have, until total totalitarianism is us? Not much longer if we don't stop this now, if that is even a possibility at this point?
I am a victim of this technology, somehow still alive, if you can call my living in forced poverty and isolation "living", and the things I could tell you would astound your every sensibility. I, for example, have no hope, it being actively taken from me by these technologies and those people behind it, and any effort I expend easily trounced by its near-total control over me.
Totalitarianism-as-a-service exists now. The post from Tor says all, its importance incalculable. We ignore it at total peril to freedom, nay!, to our very reason for being alive.
Man. The Tor project has been lost to the tankies, apparently.
Didn't Tor originally come out of the US Navy?
> ...especially now as we see these technologies being aggressively utilized in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Is this the opinion of the author or does this represent the view of the Tor organisation?
Is this the opinion of the author or does this represent the view of the Tor organisation?
It's no secret what's going on in the Middle East or Europe, a blog post highlighting the surveillance mass-apparatus is a GOOD thing. Be consistent and do it for all sides. However ending it by trying to pick a side or making political conclusions just results in people not having shared places of interest such as privacy and freedom.
My point is the centrists and moderate people on either side of Israel / Palestine have yet one less thing to agree on. And it digs people into their corners when realistically not changing much at all beside alienation of allies and what bonds us together.