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MESSAGE
DATE 2015-09-13
FROM Ruben Safir
SUBJECT Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] So much for gun control

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/08/not-long-ago-we-shot-automated-surveillance-literally-when-did-we-start-accepting-it/


Not Long Ago, We Shot Automated Surveillance (Literally). When Did We
Start Accepting It?

*When automated speed traps were introduced to Sweden in the 1990s, they
were shot. Literally. Citizens were so outraged at the idea of being
automatically fined, the speed cameras were destroyed with shotguns (!),
or just about in any way conceivable: the average lifespan of a brand
new police speed camera was 14 days. They were removed for a decade,
then reintroduced en masse without any resistance at all. What happened?*

There was an important identity change in as the 1990s decade came
around. In the 1980s, the West’s entire identity had been “We are not
/them/.” And /them/, they were the countries east of the Iron Curtain,
the countries that had automated surveillance of all their citizens, all
the time. It was a false image
and a false identity, of course, but a strong identity nonetheless.

If you had told people about the Echelon
surveillance network in the
1980s, nobody would have believed you. That was the stuff of Soviet
repression, not of the free West. Perhaps due to this indoctrination –
that the West’s indentity was liberty and individual rights – was the
reaction so harsh to automated surveillance, harsh enough for people in
a country with draconian gun laws to destroy police property with
shotguns. The strength of this civil disobedience is not to be understated.

So what happened when the automated speed cameras were rolled out a
second time?

The principal geopolitical difference was that there was no longer any
repressive power to polarize against. To make a long story short, people
no longer cared about making a difference in the way they had in the
1980s, at the brink of nuclear annihilation and when people felt they
had to take a stand. Instead, all the “positive cost savings and
increase in traffic safety” could dominate the discourse, and so,
automated speed traps were rolled out en masse.

The observation here is that a population’s identity is key to whether
it cares about civil liberties or not. And paradoxically, it appears to
help to have a neighbor that does /not/ care about such liberties – or
there won’t be something to compare to.

How do we go back to a sentiment where people would care so much for
liberties that they were ready to destroy automated police equipment
that was used for mass surveillance, risking long prison sentences in
the process? Is it even possible? I don’t have a clear answer to this
question.

However, I do know that in the meantime, privacy remains your own
responsibility.

Rick Falkvinge


About Rick Falkvinge


Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political
evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write
about ideas of a sensible information policy. He has a tech entrepreneur
background and loves whisky. Read more of his articles on his website
.


  1. 2015-09-01 mrbrklyn-at-panix.com Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [rms-at-gnu.org: Panel about technology in higher education.]
  2. 2015-09-02 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] does your PC work with Linux
  3. 2015-09-02 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fwd: Panel about technology in higher education.
  4. 2015-09-03 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Welcome to the new Google
  5. 2015-09-03 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fwd: [linux-392] Fwd: RSVP open, Wed Sept 16: Karen Sandler on Freedom
  6. 2015-09-03 prmarino1-at-gmail.com Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Welcome to the new Google
  7. 2015-09-03 Ruben Safir <ruben.safir-at-my.liu.edu> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Welcome to the new Google
  8. 2015-09-04 Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Welcome to the new Google
  9. 2015-09-05 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Movie of the Week
  10. 2015-09-07 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Copyright Wars - Chicken Sandwich
  11. 2015-09-07 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Copyright Wars - Hershey Bars
  12. 2015-09-08 Rick Moen <rick-at-linuxmafia.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Copyright Wars - Hershey Bars
  13. 2015-09-08 Rick Moen <rick-at-linuxmafia.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Copyright Wars - Chicken Sandwich
  14. 2015-09-08 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fwd: Re: [linux-392] Fwd: RSVP open, Wed Sept 16: Karen Sandler on
  15. 2015-09-08 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Let's Go Mets
  16. 2015-09-09 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Tor security
  17. 2015-09-09 mrbrklyn-at-panix.com Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [rick-at-linuxmafia.com: [conspire] $60 touchscreen for your Raspberry
  18. 2015-09-10 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Internt of things...
  19. 2015-09-10 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] bitcoin usage
  20. 2015-09-10 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fwd: Wednesday: Join us at "Freedom in my Heart"
  21. 2015-09-10 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] =?UTF-8?B?RndkOiAiTWlkZGxlIEVhc3QgUHJvdm9jYXRpb25zIGFuZCBQcmVkaWM=?=
  22. 2015-09-13 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Great Privacy tool
  23. 2015-09-13 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] cell service with best privacy
  24. 2015-09-13 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] So much for gun control
  25. 2015-09-13 Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1-at-gmail.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] cell service with best privacy
  26. 2015-09-16 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] what is going on with HP?
  27. 2015-09-16 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Being literate in the 1300's
  28. 2015-09-16 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Controlling the Subway with Free Software
  29. 2015-09-16 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Controlling the Subway with Free Software
  30. 2015-09-16 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] the war on encryption: Daily News
  31. 2015-09-21 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] movie of the week
  32. 2015-09-23 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Writing Kernel Driver tutorial
  33. 2015-09-24 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Hipsters invade brooklyn?
  34. 2015-09-24 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Hipsters invade brooklyn?
  35. 2015-09-24 Ruben Safir <ruben.safir-at-my.liu.edu> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Hipsters invade brooklyn?
  36. 2015-09-25 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Artificial Intelligence in Perl
  37. 2015-09-26 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Vacuum sealers
  38. 2015-09-26 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Vacuum sealers
  39. 2015-09-26 Rick Moen <rick-at-linuxmafia.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Vacuum sealers
  40. 2015-09-27 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Vacuum sealers
  41. 2015-09-27 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Vacuum sealers
  42. 2015-09-30 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] deep learning

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