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>Modern surveillance states operate on the premise that every individual, out of billions worldwide, could become a potential threat.

Because these states are so extractive of their populace and engage in so much evil that any given person constitutes a potential threat. They're worried that anyone could just wake up one day and decide to be the next uncle Ted or whatever.



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