I've been shouting that we were headed for a surveillance dictatorship for decades. Every facet of our lives will be scrutinized and regulated via our forced dependency on electronic devices. And we'll live or die, *literally*, by whether we encounter technical issues in the software that enables that dictatorship.

Here's the first step, for those of you who have scoffed:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/06/an-anti-porn-app-put-him-in-jail-and-his-family-under-surveillance/