[loourr]

The inevitable end of all government compiled lists of people

[autoexec]

It doesn't matter who compiles the lists anymore. Corporations will sell that data to the government (and anyone else willing to pay enough) or the government will march in and take it by force.

As long as lists of people are useful they will be created, and as long as our government is unaccountable to the people and the law those lists will be at risk of being abused by the state for other purposes.

[mlinhares]

Its the other way around, authoritarian governments will now compile even more and larger lists of everything they can possibly get from their citizens. North Korea would be proud of what this administration is doing.

[bl0b]

I think they meant 'end' as in the 'ultimate destination' rather than 'conclusion'.

[yongjik]

In many other countries, people would be asking "This is horrible, how can we bring down this leader, and how can we ensure that it never happens again?"

But here in glorious America, people are asking "This is inevitable, how can we starve the government more, so that it cannot hurt us when it eventually tries to?"

It's telling that, every time there's an election, we keep hearing complaints about who can vote, because its citizens decided that the government shouldn't keep track of who are its citizens and where they live. In most other countries it's the government's job to issue a photo ID to every citizen, but no, here in America that sounds too convenient and it must be some evil big-gov agenda.

[jahewson]

Remind me which side of the Atlantic is throwing its citizens in jail for tweets?

[xdennis]

But the lists were compiled before Trump took office. Countries that have experience with totalitarianism don't make those lists to begin with.

That's why in France, for example, it's illegal for the government to keep track of people's race or religion. When the Nazis occupied France they used such documents to figure out who the Jews were.

[tiahura]

Countries that have experience with totalitarianism don't make those lists to begin with.

I’m pretty sure the German government has a list of people enrolled in the German socialized medical system.

[shakow]

> it's illegal for the government to keep track of people's race

We don't even have the concept of “race”.

[freedomben]

We really don't seem to like learning the lessons of history

[bigyabai]

Client Side Scanning tried to hash your files to help the government find any "child predators" using iPhone.

You know, the same federal government that refused to assign a special prosecutor to the Epstein files. You can rest assured Apple and the Fed are very interested in protecting the children. Anyone who refuses to allow that sort of process is probably a criminal anyways, right?

[skybrian]

Trump getting elected wasn’t inevitable. There were unusual events during the 2016 election campaign that could have resulted in a different outcome if their timing had been different.

[giantg2]

What they're saying is that government lists get abused. That's true no matter who is in power.

[gosub100]

Billionaires paid for Hillary, dems couldn't be bothered to listen to the people. Took 0 responsibility for it. Just took her campaign war chest and dumped it into a media smear campaign.