Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "Should Law-Abiding Citizens Care About Surveillance? (Heidi Boghosian Interview)" video.

Here's a question. Which would be more disturbing to you? A government tracking your data or every corporation you have ever interacted with tracking your data?
1
@rubeniscool That is pretty disturbing. But as for corporations, I didn't say A corporation, I said all of them you've ever interacted with. Don't forget, most of our government is beholden to large corporate interests. Just imagine every corporation plotting the best way to control you, not through laws and punishment, but by subtly controlling what information you have access to, figuring out which forms of advertising you're most susceptible to Discovering how to make you do what they want, not to go to war, not to make you afraid, but to make you their willing and enthusiastic slave. Maybe you never wanted to buy a certain product, but now, suddenly, it seems like the thing to get. Oh, it's unsafe? Not according to the media they own and control. Governments, in the end, are still answerable to their people. Enough people realize they're being tracked or that things aren't going the way they want, they can band together. Who are corporations answerable to? They are machines devised to consume all resources they can. If a CEO grows a conscience, he\she is replaced. Next quarter's profits not high enough? Round of firings to make it appear that it's up. You want to quit your job and work somewhere else? Well, they have your information and can make it impossible for anyone else to hire you, and just out of spite, they're going to cut your pay, tighten those screws so you know they own you, now and forever. Tell me again the government is more disturbing?
1
@rubeniscool You don't think corporations can curtail your freedoms? Really? They've been responsible for giving us the illusion of choice for a very long time. Most people don't interact with government on a daily basis outside getting their mail, but do interact with corporations on, often, an hourly basis. Look at Facebook and how they've been programming people to constantly be angry and afraid JUST so they stay on Facebook longer and keep looking at all those profitable ads. Governments WISH they had that kind of casual power. No government went from one day being fine and the next disappearing people off the streets, it was always a gradual build up. Corporations often switch modes to keep you doing everything they want you to do.
1