That's a gross over simplification that ignores the influence of the insurance industry shifting the baseline of public surveillance and crony capitalism that infects our municipalities.

Capitalism is pretty inherently authoritarian. The boss calls the shots.

"Decentralize the mass surveillance!" cries the anarcho-libertarian. "Big Government is monopolizing all the cameras! We should let the market decide who gets spied on!"

This is absolutely a capitalism problem. It's what happens when you let corporations do whatever without consequences as long as they can afford the bribes and in turn get contacts on taxpayer money.

Authoritarianism means very little, it's such a broad term that doesn't localise the origin of repression. Instead of considering the root of the problem here, which is capitalism/private property, you look at a feature or a phenomenon.

Capitalism is about gaining all power (capital). Its end goal is complete surveillance. 2+2 = 4

That's how they get away with it too. Worst constitutional loophole ever.

Ask Naomi Wu.

To my knowledge, Naomi Wu was never "black bagged". She's still selling stuff on cybernightmarket. She's just done posting politics.

But to compare the grief Wu got (and, from what I read forever ago, it was as much other terminally online types screaming at her as any state intervention) with Leqaa Kordia or Mahmoud Khalil both of whom absolutely were "black bagged" in the literal sense? Wu was not indefinitely detained in a prison camp or threatened with torture unless she "voluntarily self-deported", at least as far as I could find.

Russia basically is this already.

Russia is so much more, as they've weaponized their prison population into military conscripts.

Really not looking forward to the day I'm arrested by an ICE agent who is, himself, wearing a bomb collar.

Capitalism itself is not the motivation for the surveillance state

The surveillance state is a vital tool of private industry when executives fear a proletariat insurrection. It is a necessary precondition to prevent insurrection.