Why is it so hard to outlaw surveillance tech?
Discussion
Profits
There must be humans who don’t care about profits or personal gain of any sort 🤷♂️
There are but they never attain positions of power.
Typically people who skew more towards psychopathic tendencies get into positions of power. Not really sure what to do about it.
The ancient form of "democracy" kept money away from political positions because they knew that corruption soon followed. I think something like that would definitely help.
People who can't tip the scales financially wouldn't have the same motivations. I believe they were also only able to hold position for a limited time. Probably half a dozen other culturally instantiated rules as well that might help us get things back on track a bit.
They inject cultural ideas, why can't we?
It's profitable
Don’t we have anyone who is not motivated by financial gains?
Not in a position of political power. People who get there are breeded through natural selection to by sociopathic.
the people who make the laws are the ones surveilling 😂😂😂
this 👆
Do you mean through lobbying? Like Thiel?
Peter motherfucking Thiel is the head Mafia boss of surveillance tech. the harm he's done in enabling global surveillance on citizens is immeasurable, so you're joking right?
Joking? Not sure what you mean. I asked if through lobbying and you seem to confirm.
Why is it so hard to convince a robber to drop the weapons?
I get it but I don’t buy this pessimistic view that every politician is bought. There must be more practical, perhaps technical reasons why it’s difficult to pass strong proactive legislation. I’m waiting for someone with some insights to share but no one has. Maybe nostr is not the place to ask.
It has nothing to do with politicians being bought off. It's just the nature of governments.
Governments never give up power once they have it, even if one political side legislated that power and the other side didn't agree with. Once the other side gets into power, they will not get rid of any powers their opposition created.
The Patriot Act is the perfect example.
Why do some people think that there always has to be a law?
Because most surveillance is done by outlaws.
Instead we must build easy and cheap to use defensive privacy technologies. (which funnily will be outlawed)