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Yay. Underpaid freelance workers are now part of the surveillance state (discuss.online)

submitted 2 days ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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News article https://cybernews.com/news/flock-uber-lyft-vehicles-surveillance/

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Yes, that's how it's implemented under capitalism.

States further into their authoritarianism don't need to bother with middle men and cutouts and shit.

They just put up the cameras.

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago

Capitalists have been trying to build the panopticon since the first factories.

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