The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’ - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-new-way-police-are-surveilling-you-calculating-your-threat-score/2016/01/10/e42bccac-8e15-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html?
"Because 1984 was not supposed to be a manual" @wendell
Sounds like it is straight outta Minority Report.
True, and scary!
Now I have to monitor my threat score.. jeez.
I wonder if credit bureaus will offer a credit report and threat report bundle. Gotta save some money somewhere!
NSA director says "well we need to put all this data to good use, how about we calculate who will do a crime in the future, despite the fact that they haven't!" donald trump reply's "sounds good, just focus on the mexicans and muslims" nsa director "Will do!"
The only people who would be worried by this are the kinds of people who would have a high threat score and are more likely to do something harmful. Admitting that you care about this is basically admitting that you want to be free to commit violent crimes.
-The complacent masses
This is a interesting point about over implication of Orwell
thoughts ?
That was quite interesting. I need to read Huxley. It seems to me that what he was talking about (Huxley) has been going on over the last 70 years or so, especially with the advent of television and the culture of consumerism. And that has allowed governments to creep towards 1984 without much trouble. What scares me is that if that is happening in the U.S. and the west, imagine what could be happening in less democratic states. Thanks for the link!
Its a combination of what both writers warned against. To bash Orwell because our society incorporate things Huxley warned against is either stupidity or click baiting. Most likely both same goes for vice versa.
Now Orwell from a writing standpoint had the better book you feel hopeless defeated and destroyed in the end. Their is absolutely no hope in his books future they are for ever doomed. Also in the end run a controlling government would in the end result to the model used in Orwell works that is the end stage of absolute control over everyone. Huxley still had the parts of society not fully controlled by the government even with the freedom of living out their lives from with out the control of the government by being banished some where. In 1984 you had no individual freedom no matter what eventually you would come to accept the government put in place.
Actually, you could be wrong. If you live nearby somebody they may pull you over or profile you because of where some half shady sotware says there is a threat. Then it's lights, sirens and papers please. Software shows a threat, a local judge will sign off on a search warrant. They kick in your door, gas you, beat you down because you resist. Oh wrong address? Guess what, good luck at a civil suit. You can't even get them to pay for property damages, they are immune. The reality is, people who say "you have nothing to hide," are the ones when it becomes their turn for unnecessary search and seizure will be how did this happen. You let this happen.
Instead of flaming actually raise a counter point. You can do better.
Or notice that it was sarcasm.
It is hard to pick up in text though.
Not if you understood the fact that it was being said by the "The complacent masses" and watched the video posted.
Holy shit that's where I'm from lol. I was wondering why that dude looked so familiar.
"We the people" are the enemy in the eyes of those in power.
slightly off topic, can we make this a shirt?
I'm not saying I disagree with the concept, and I understand that words aren't always used with their exact definition, but the actual definition according to Dictionary.com is different.
Here it is.
1. the act or practice of spying.
2. the use of spies by a government to discover the military and political secrets of other nations.
3. the use of spies by a corporation or the like to acquire the plans, technical knowledge, etc., of a competitor:
industrial espionage.
So I guess we'd have to dig deeper and see exactly what spying means, but I'm not going to take the time to do that because it won't change the outcome of the situation.
