Commercially available data from cars, phones and web browsers now rivals results from wiretaps, cyber espionage and physical surveillance.

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While we're increasingly being lured into The Matrix, where us plebs will take up less space in the real world, the next-level play is actually to go the other direction.

This "slavish ritual of devotion to the state" has no place in a free society

The European Union’s Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton, was apparently miffed that Elon Musk withdrew Twitter from the EU’s “voluntary code of practice against disinformation.” He was sufficiently put out by Twitter’s withdrawal from the “voluntary code” that he felt the need to publicly reprimand Twitter for not gratefully submitting to the European Union’s expert guidance: “You can run but you can’t hide…Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under Digital Services Act as of August 25th.”

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook (now known as Meta) has criticized the behavior of the medical and scientific establishment during the coronavirus pandemic, who, backed by western governments, demanded social media censorship of information that "ended up being more debatable or true."

The French Senate has approved a bill that would allow the state to spy on individuals by remotely activating phone microphones and cameras.

"We trusted the government not to screw us," said Edward Snowden. "But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power."

According to internal documents reviewed by Vice, the Department of Homeland Security in 2018 sought to develop a method for assigning "risk scores" to social media users, in a program to identify "disinformation" efforts named "Night Fury" by the DHS.