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Date Line April 17, 2008
Date Line April 17, 2008
Today, Jim Hightower (Free Speech News) commented on American supplied surveillance equipment being installed by China for the Olympics. Seems there will be a camera in every nook and corner, every house of worship and public, or private, spot.
Our best and biggest firms are tripping over themselves in an effort to develop hi-tech computer analysis systems which can spot individuals, or individual actions. The analysis software will ensure that anyone who does something the State does not like – from chewing gum and dropping paper on the sidewalk, to the more anti-social behavior most people would abhor, even if tolerated as consistent with freedom and personal rights.
Yep! Going to the Olympics in China will result in a database of facts on everyone, of every nation foolish enough to want to see athletes do their thing.
That Americans are setting up the Orwellian Big Brother spy network for China is going to slip under the wire. But think “Homeland Security” and the domestic spying the GOP has promoted to date.
Think about the problems associated with testing new software and equipment. Think about the cost. Now imagine there is someone – a government. Shall we say – who is willing to foot the bill and provide a military to investigate anything flagged by the software. Not only investigate, but give detailed reports and background data on the people identified as “problem makers”.
Hum. Do you think that would make development of a spy system harder or easier, or ...?
What is developed in China will be applicable at home. Cameras will appear in corporate offices – in the ladies WC and someplace near the water cooler. Bosses will be able to tell when an employee is planning to leave the firm, or when the are stealing paper clips. OR ... well they will know everything. The government offices will, quite naturally, see these newly perfected devices installed. Then they will go into the streets – replacing, upgrading, traffic cameras to the point where nobody can speak, or move, freely.
Big Brother has arrived. China is footing the initial, and probably subsequent, development costs – the GOP is waiting to utilize what China has bought. FREEDOM? Wave goodbye.
Our best and biggest firms are tripping over themselves in an effort to develop hi-tech computer analysis systems which can spot individuals, or individual actions. The analysis software will ensure that anyone who does something the State does not like – from chewing gum and dropping paper on the sidewalk, to the more anti-social behavior most people would abhor, even if tolerated as consistent with freedom and personal rights.
Yep! Going to the Olympics in China will result in a database of facts on everyone, of every nation foolish enough to want to see athletes do their thing.
That Americans are setting up the Orwellian Big Brother spy network for China is going to slip under the wire. But think “Homeland Security” and the domestic spying the GOP has promoted to date.
Think about the problems associated with testing new software and equipment. Think about the cost. Now imagine there is someone – a government. Shall we say – who is willing to foot the bill and provide a military to investigate anything flagged by the software. Not only investigate, but give detailed reports and background data on the people identified as “problem makers”.
Hum. Do you think that would make development of a spy system harder or easier, or ...?
What is developed in China will be applicable at home. Cameras will appear in corporate offices – in the ladies WC and someplace near the water cooler. Bosses will be able to tell when an employee is planning to leave the firm, or when the are stealing paper clips. OR ... well they will know everything. The government offices will, quite naturally, see these newly perfected devices installed. Then they will go into the streets – replacing, upgrading, traffic cameras to the point where nobody can speak, or move, freely.
Big Brother has arrived. China is footing the initial, and probably subsequent, development costs – the GOP is waiting to utilize what China has bought. FREEDOM? Wave goodbye.
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