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Old 03-23-2008, 12:09 PM   #12
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Tommy, you are being paranoid, as well as exaggerating... stop scaring the locals!

Many of the "surveillance" issues you describe are already in-place and being used, but the world as we know it has not devolved into the Dark Ages. No, no one likes the prospect of "being watched," but ascribing intentionally evil tendencies to that is being... well, paranoid. Governments do no more and no less than what they feel they need to do, to keep things operating smoothly. And most of the things they require aren't that onerous.

Consider the things you do to get cell phone or cable/satellite TV accounts... their steps are among those that many citizens rail against. Yet, they still buy cellphones and watch cable TV. People accept some levels of "surveillance" because it gets them something they want. Digital content delivery will be forced to meet the same criteria, and if it's done right, we will complain a bit about the obtrusiveness... but we'll accept it anyway.
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