Over the last century surveillance and control has slowly crept into out lives. Never before has the government had so much power
Over the last century surveillance and control has slowly crept into out lives. Never before has the government had so much power
I do agree that wire tapping is an important escalation and that authoritarianism becomes more effective the more you can spy on people.
But “it all started with” can imply causation, and i don’t think we can blame surveillance tech for the boiling pot of authoritarianism.
Nothing as big as a global trend can be mono-casual. I suspect that big things like resource scarcity/bounty, social inequality, aggregate stress levels in society, etc are also important in turning up the heat on that pot.