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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
HA!
Another person who believes Big Brother is under every rock and behind every tree, watching every citizen in the world via ultra-telescopic satellites, and that the tiniest bit of personal information given up to the tiniest store clerk will bring the Gestapo one step closer to breaking down their doors and throwing them in the hole for having freckles or reading Joyce.
God, save me from paranoids and Big Brother nonsense.
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- Principiis obsta. and "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- It doesn't need to be the collector (or creator of something) who abuses it. See: The Physicists by Dürenmatt.
- Your approach would give far too much power in the hands of companies which are interested in their own survival. And unlike goverments are not legally bound the same way the ones you elected to trust them.
So I was rather thinking of Big_Businessman.com, than Big_Brother.gov, but...
Neither the gov Trojans, nor the Secret Police Forces of Soviet satellite-countries (just to keep
this list shorter) are fairytales
Especially the last ones have always had a keen eye on artists and their fans - feel free to check historical data - I'll gladly help out if you dig up something in Polish... and then you might to change your mind...