Recent news has revealed what many already suspected – we have become a de-facto surveillance state. The problem is: we are not at all ready to be a surveillance state.
Tag: politics
Why Corporate Participation in Politics is Bad, Bad, Bad
I’ve talked before about why corporations are evil (or rather, why they tend to behave that way). But there’s something else I want to talk about which is related to that – and that’s corporate participation in politics. Let’s back up a bit first though and go over what exactly is a corporation? A corporation… Continue reading Why Corporate Participation in Politics is Bad, Bad, Bad
Florida Activates System for Citizens to Call Each Other Terrorists
Florida Activates System for Citizens to Call Each Other Terrorists Or, in other words, a very, very, very bad idea… but sadly not the first time we’ve seen something just like this. There’s the “if you see something, say something” campaign that you see plastered all over the place in the greater NYC metro area… Continue reading Florida Activates System for Citizens to Call Each Other Terrorists
Trust No One
In the post 9/11 America, you are presumed guilty until… well, you’re pretty much always presumed guilty.
Lessons we still haven’t learned from 1984
Looking at George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ and seeing some uncomfortable parallels to our modern world.