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@CatLord I've heard a lot of this— not the alarm over what is being done, but over the lack of reaction to it. I hear it, ironically, mainly from leftists who had, five years ago, sneered and giggled into their shirtsleeves at the "alex jones conspiratards" who balked at the wuflu lockdowns and plans for "vaccine passports" as the prelude to what is now unfolding.

Much of what is happening should be very familiar by now: the government invents a problem that it pretends it is able to solve by radically curtailing your freedom and dignity. Bleating about "think of (grandma|the children)" is sufficient to justify ramming any policy into the law books, worldwide, and half the population goes along with it because they have no dignity and value their freedom the way a fish values a bicycle. Of the other half of the population, half are too busy calling PF feds and watching football to notice this latest in the endless chain of swindles.

The last quarter, consisting of /us/ and I know not who else, seem to reject the narratives, yet accept their inevitability. Even the OP presents our side of the argument as feckless blubbering. We've seen over and over again that the government is unfathomably corrupt and does whatever it wants, increasingly without even a fig leaf to disguise its behavior. Worse, we've come to understand that most of the population deserves such governance.

I wish I knew what to say other than "try to carve out something decent for you and yours, and wait it out." The Kali Yuga will only last another 100,000 years or so, after all.

It upsets me that people don't care about privacy and communications security. Mass data harvesting, mass surveillance, digital ID, chat control, VPN restrictions, encryption restrictions, email restrictions, backdoors in every device and component, et cetera - all of it is extremely bad and completely tyrannical.

How can anyone not feel the walls closing in? You're being herded into a pen where you can no longer dissent. After the transposition of the public space into the digital, there isn't really too much of a social/communal backup, like the pub, that everyone goes to without digital organising.

Even modern cars now ping cell towers, so they're constantly tracked, and are beginning to integrate driver cameras, so it doesn't matter if you don't take your phone somewhere, the car itself is spying on you.

There ARE people that care about this but not enough, and even people who should know better are lazy with this stuff and don't put in enough effort.