A taste of the future for the rest of us?
Check out this interesting article:
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=15857
I find it disturbing that the general public of Middlesborough and elsewhere is not outraged at being watched. Has reality television desensitized us so much that we actually want others watching our actions?! We have already allowed too much surveillance of our lives into our lives, in my opinion. Sure we do not want crime to happen nor have criminals get away with it, but do we want to sacrifice our freedom and what privacy we ought to have for security and the "Big Brother" phenomenon?
Any "But I'm a law-abiding citizen that has nothing to worry about" people out there can shove it because I obey the law and have little to worry about in that respect, too. This is a matter of choice and if we are not even given the ability to choose for ourselves--whether for good or for poor--then what are we left with? We'll be left with a laundry list of what we can do and a whole world of possibilities out there in which we can no longer live.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=15857
I find it disturbing that the general public of Middlesborough and elsewhere is not outraged at being watched. Has reality television desensitized us so much that we actually want others watching our actions?! We have already allowed too much surveillance of our lives into our lives, in my opinion. Sure we do not want crime to happen nor have criminals get away with it, but do we want to sacrifice our freedom and what privacy we ought to have for security and the "Big Brother" phenomenon?
Any "But I'm a law-abiding citizen that has nothing to worry about" people out there can shove it because I obey the law and have little to worry about in that respect, too. This is a matter of choice and if we are not even given the ability to choose for ourselves--whether for good or for poor--then what are we left with? We'll be left with a laundry list of what we can do and a whole world of possibilities out there in which we can no longer live.
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