To me the difference between the iron curtain and today is storage and retrieval. The Bluffdale NAS has been quietly recording everything we say and do, and in 10-20 years it will be a gold mine for manipulating presidential elections. In fact, I can't wait (only for the satisfaction of seeing my prediction come true) to see the first election where the "dirt" on the candidate is an 8th-grade myspace/facebook post.
Take this to NSA levels of privacy invasion and things are about to get _really_ interesting. Nixing candidates is only the beginning, you can sell them protection, or force them to pass/don't pass laws or foreign policy. To me, that's the _real_ benefit of all this. they probably couldn't care less about dissidents.
Take this to NSA levels of privacy invasion and things are about to get _really_ interesting. Nixing candidates is only the beginning, you can sell them protection, or force them to pass/don't pass laws or foreign policy. To me, that's the _real_ benefit of all this. they probably couldn't care less about dissidents.