You can assume that any possible previously unthinkable abuse of metadata was done by every single company and government to the truckers. There are a tremendous number of things governments can do to stop actual protest movements when they're not officially sanctioned brownshirts like antifa.
So tired of this "They're the real nazis" thing. They don't care about it, but calling them the communists they are at least makes them angry sometimes. A better analogue would be the red guards from China's cultural revolution. I definitely refer to them as the new red guard, in the rare instances it comes up.
Western leftists in their 30s-40s are much dumber and crueler than the Red Guards or the Khmer Rouge could ever have imagined being, because neither of those groups had people who spent 15-20 years getting most of their social interactions on screens.
You can assume that any possible previously unthinkable abuse of metadata was done by every single company and government to the truckers. There are a tremendous number of things governments can do to stop actual protest movements when they're not officially sanctioned brownshirts like antifa.
So tired of this "They're the real nazis" thing. They don't care about it, but calling them the communists they are at least makes them angry sometimes. A better analogue would be the red guards from China's cultural revolution. I definitely refer to them as the new red guard, in the rare instances it comes up.
Western leftists in their 30s-40s are much dumber and crueler than the Red Guards or the Khmer Rouge could ever have imagined being, because neither of those groups had people who spent 15-20 years getting most of their social interactions on screens.