Being an Enemy of the State
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Going back further, if you ever watched the movie Se7en, there's a scene where a one of the main characters in hushed tones mentions to another that the Feds set flags on certain library books so that people who check them out become "persons of interest" in the event that certain crimes are committed.
The first time I saw that movie was maybe 10 years after it came out (post 9/11; the move came out in 95 I think), and my reaction to that scene was "well duh".
Many are incapable of truly grasping the implications of such a surveillance state. If nothing is explicitly impacting their day-to-day functions, then they don’t care who sees what.
Something I think about a lot is how to translate the communities we build online into the real world where we could conceivably wield socio-political power and start to build the sorts of places where we could thrive. But if you say "come to this town; we're based" then our enemies immediately know where to attack.
But I'm not smart enough to come up with a good solution. Maybe "the solution is not minding that it hurts"; I don't know.