There’s strength—and rage—in numbers, and our rulers know it. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
“As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world,” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said in a recent interview. “Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept? That these datasets will not be kept? No matter how it is being used, what is being built is the architecture of oppression.”
“Apple Inc. and Google unveiled a rare partnership to add technology to their smartphone platforms that will alert users if they have come into contact with a person with Covid-19,” reads a new report from Bloomberg. “People must opt in to the system, but it has the potential to monitor about a third of the world’s population.”
“World Health Organization executive director Dr. Michael Ryan said surveillance is part of what’s required for life to return to normal in a world without a vaccine. However, civil liberties experts warn that the public has little recourse to challenge these digital exercises of power once the immediate threat has passed,” reads a recent VentureBeat article titled “After coronavirus, AI could be central to our new normal“.
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They are shit scared and have been for a long time. All their systems socialist, financial and otherwise are coming down like a ton of bricks and they know it. It’s a pity that the general public is not aware of this. It’s about time that we control the government and make sure that they do the things WE want, rather than them telling us what we should be doing. The WORM has to turn and he has to turn quick if he want’s to regain control of his own destiny!
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