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[–] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Lol, that's a big-brained take from Wired that there's a Goldilocks amount of surveillance and repression that apartheid regimes should be applying for the best results.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I dunno man, after reading the article I kind of get their point.

Israel has over 15,000 cameras installed all over the place. They seem to be taking in so much information that they are legit obfuscating themselves, lol.

[–] Madison420 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, they're letting it happen so they can have a legal claim on the illegal settlements and the Gaza as a whole because that place is pretty likely to resemble the face of the moon here soon.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Precisely this.

They don’t want peace, they want an excuse to continue stealing land from the Palestinians

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

I mean, the article isn't wrong in that regard, but somehow it just misses what I think would be an obvious conclusion that doing that to people is fundamentally unsustainable and just wrong in the first place.

[–] mlg 25 points 11 months ago

Halfway to an onion headline lol

"Israel unveils new AI data driven plan which optimizes the surveillance to death ratio."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey Wired , dare you to say that about 911

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But that one also wasn't prevented by surveillance either

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But was it too much back then?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And only got worse after. They pushed through a whole bunch of privacy invading laws under the scope of anti terrorism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

it was more invasive but was less publicly known until after Snowden.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

-Ben Franklin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

Israeli intelligence knew and did nothing at the behest of their masters