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Pol, mass surveillance
I'd spent my 20s during the George W Bush Administration, when the Patriot Act made a spy state seem a strict eventuality.
Of course, now there's so much info that it takes Giant businesses to analyze it, all data is more or less public, and the only folks who have run into major legal consequences and Hate this new system... Are all the folks who make Hush Money payments, organize conspiracies, and hate when their own words are repeated back to them.
And now? We can socially identify the Shitheads, too! They all wear bright red hats proclaiming their outcast and Other status.
Their very mannerisms give them away.
