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Yay. Underpaid freelance workers are now part of the surveillance state (discuss.online)
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News article https://cybernews.com/news/flock-uber-lyft-vehicles-surveillance/

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[–] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

True, but I could also see an authoritarian "communist" government doing all the same surveillance bullshit.

So, while it's a capitalism problem this time, I don't think it's a capitalism-exclusive problem. It really is, at its root, an authoritarianism problem. This time, you've got capitalist authoritarianism, but next time maybe a different flavor.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    China already has this sort of system completely built out.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I'll tell you more, the UK is one of the leading countries in cameras per capita, either installed or accessible by the authorities (not sure about exact details). They built government surveillance without any communism in sight.

    (Leaving alone that China's state capitalism is the opposite of communism.)

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  • [–] -4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    But is the technology developed by the state or are they contracting it out to a private company?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    You can't get rid of authoritarianism the same way you can't get rid of stupid. Some portion of the population will always be the bottom of the bell curve.

    What you can do, however, is redirect it into something positive. For example, Japanese social structures are pretty fuckin' authoritarian. Most people wouldn't even dream of littering.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    You can’t get rid of authoritarianism the same way you can’t get rid of stupid.

    True, but you can get rid of hierarchical authority itself, leaving the authoritarians nothing to work with. Ask your local anarchist how.

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