[HN Gopher] The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveilla...
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       The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveillance Doesn't
       Protect Us
        
       Author : ddtaylor
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-05-26 21:19 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | gunfighthacksaw wrote:
       | On the flip side, the fact that none of these people were
       | prevented makes me think the mass surveillance isn't as scary as
       | we thought.
       | 
       | The targeting of black activists is nothing new. The US law
       | enforcement and intelligence services have been doing that
       | forever, before computers even.
        
       | throwaway0a5e wrote:
       | The system didn't catch him because the system has no incentive
       | to make more than a token effort to prevent stuff like this
       | because these sorts of tragedies tend to give the system more
       | power.
        
       | betwixthewires wrote:
       | It doesn't protect us because it isn't designed to. That's the
       | sales pitch, but that's not what it's for. People think it's odd
       | because they don't understand what it is. Why spy on everyone if
       | the point is _not_ to protect people? Even if your idea of
       | protecting society is jailing homosexuals or minority activists,
       | what purpose do these tools serve but someone 's idea of
       | protecting society?
       | 
       | It's a big blackmail operation. To maintain power in an economic
       | system where people can make something of themselves on their
       | own, you need to know a lot about them throughout their lives.
       | Having power in a system where people can't do that is great, but
       | it doesn't give you a good economic engine to manipulate. So they
       | just prepare to control you if you ever make it, for everyone,
       | and let us all do our thing. No matter who makes it in life,
       | they've got them by the balls.
       | 
       | They also blackmail each other for their own personal interest.
       | 
       | The whole intelligence apparatus is J Edgar Hoover's FBI on alien
       | steroids, a big machine designed to preserve power for the people
       | operating it.
        
       | juanani wrote:
        
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