I'm troubled by the seeming lack of public interest in this topic. I would have thought that the pandemic would have alerted more people to the danger of blind trust in government.
I feel the same way, Wendy. I think, generally, that people think as long as they don't do anything "wrong" they don't have to worry about surveillance. I also think that most people believe that getting targeted ads is the worst of it. Sadly, it's much worse but hopefully people will start cluing in to what the surveillance capitalists, who have in many cases partnered with governments, really have in mind.
I saw that often back when I was actively supporting school-free families. Many often weren't concerned about creeping regulation because they "didn't have anything to hide." Thanks for writing about these issues.
I'm troubled by the seeming lack of public interest in this topic. I would have thought that the pandemic would have alerted more people to the danger of blind trust in government.
I feel the same way, Wendy. I think, generally, that people think as long as they don't do anything "wrong" they don't have to worry about surveillance. I also think that most people believe that getting targeted ads is the worst of it. Sadly, it's much worse but hopefully people will start cluing in to what the surveillance capitalists, who have in many cases partnered with governments, really have in mind.
I saw that often back when I was actively supporting school-free families. Many often weren't concerned about creeping regulation because they "didn't have anything to hide." Thanks for writing about these issues.
Thanks for the link, Liz. The article is interesting. I have one issue with it, and that is that Cox makes reference to "quarantine camps" which she says "existed in China, Australia and Canada." I'm not exactly sure what she's referring to, but we never had "camps," in Canada, though we did have quarantine hotels for international travellers (https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/isolation/designated-quarantine-facilities). But nothing remotely like what existed in parts of Australia (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59486285) or China (https://web.archive.org/web/20221003110204/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-21/china-s-vast-14-000-bed-covid-camp-revealed-in-drone-footage?leadSource=uverify%20wall).