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csoups14today at 1:23 PM1 replyview on HN

How exactly do you think those authoritarians are identifying whose freedoms are to be taken away? Or do you think all of the datamining and Palantir contracts are for lolz? Two sides of the same coin.


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vkoutoday at 1:57 PM

> How exactly do you think those authoritarians are identifying whose freedoms are to be taken away?

Pretty easily. Do you look sort of like their enemy of the week?

That's all the excuse they need to grab you.

They don't actually give a shit about being accurate in that identification. Accuracy in repression isn't the goal. The goal is a visible, public show of force.