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submitted 14 hours ago by udon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

A new spin in the surveillance logic seems to be developing. The surveillance is of course still happening and expanding. But also it does not seem to matter that much anymore.

The promise of the surveillance logic was that state actors or large companies find out some "hidden truth" about citizens, to target them with more tailored ads or repress them based on some evidence.

Today, it seems that this logic becomes less important. Surveillance tools are still there, but they become more of a gimmick. The findings do not seem to matter that much anymore, repression happens based on vibes.

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[-] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 7 hours ago

repress them

Can you elaborate on this part? I have no idea what you're talking about.

[-] udon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Snowden revealed a lot of this, but surveillance is an important part of the typical repressive action. You have to identify the relevant people before you can do anything about them.

A concrete example would be surveillance (and then regulation) of bank transactions. Another is video surveillance of protesters.

In contrast, today we see blocking of people's bank accounts out of pure vibes

[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today -5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

We're going towards the New World Order, which will be ruled by the Vatican. They're the ones who will enforce it. D.C. (District of the Roman goddess, Columbia) will be used as the militant and intelligence arm, London is the trade and financial arm, and Vatican City is the political and religious arm of the NWO.

This is the 7th Vial of Revelation according to historicists.

Edit: As for post-surveillance, we're worse off than we were over 25 years ago. People are waking up to it, but the Vatican (specifically, the Jesuits) are attempting to shut it down before too long (otherwise, they'll be noticed as those who rule with iron fists).

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

They’re the ones who will enforce it. D.C. (District of the Roman goddess, Columbia)

This sounds profoundly baseless and schizo because I couldn't find any roman goddess called columbia. Other than the character created for imperialist fervor much like Britannia with the british empire. But that's just roman-style, and therefore shouldn't be cited as related to vatican city.

I don't think the vatican has interest in ruling an american empire and the recent developments with the epstein files should rather indicate that a Network of Zionist lobbyists and blackmailers were actually closer to doing it rather than a network of Catholic power. There doesn't seem to be any network of Catholic espionage.

Seems like a VERY old-fashioned, and therefore vague & unrooted in reality, conspiracy theory. Sorry, but i had to say so.

[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)
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