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In reply to the discussion: An attempted mind fuck ( otherwise known as psyops) [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Far above personalities, the information is what the people need, not just American people, but all liberty loving people affected by the consumption and secret digestion of all of OUR information.
What the whistleblowers information appears to tell us - is that the data being collected is nearly, if not all of the digital media transmitted across all the main networks.
Collected and also stored.
I submit that they are desperately trying to discredit and villainize whistleblowers because this part at least is almost certainly true - they have created the world's largest data storage facility ever dreamed of, and are feeding it with the most sophisticated Data gathering systems ever developed. I would have named it the "Panopticon Lens Data Storage Compound".
What is unknown yet is how much of our data is being accessed, how often, by how many and exactly who. Much like with the concept of the original "Panopticon" of fiction, as important as those questions are, they mean little as we now know that at any time for any mysterious (unknowable to us) reason, they (meaning government and corporate agents) may focus upon any of us and hear all our network transmitted phone calls, see all our video, read all our emails, know all our contacts, where and when we gather, what we buy, etc. and they can do it in real time as well as playback from any time in the past!
This will thus affect and guide our behaviour until the Panopticon DATA systems are dismantled and replaced with a system of reasonable collection - based on probable cause rather than the current system of universal collection and storage. They do not want this, they want it all and they are panicking because the cat is out of the bag and they must still fear that we can stop it!
On DU I have had the privilege of hearing the opinions of free citizens in Europe and other places that are directly affected by this data mining as well. They are not even offered the fig leaf promises of privacy being marketed as existing for US citizens and many are a bit "unhappy" about this to say the least. It is becoming a near GLOBAL Surveillance/Security State operated by, and profiting, a group of multinational corporations, yet paid for and built by a group of purchased governments that will use them to maintain authority over their respective countrymen.
A mating of fascism and authoritarianism joining in an orgy fueled by our liberty and our money to benefit those in authority and those that profit. They will be able to bleed us dry, and with little or no liberty, we will have no way of stopping any of it once it is fully realized.
We must not let that happen!
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