cherrypicker001

That twitter thread is awesome and sums it up pretty well. Half the posts are Winnie the Pooh gifs and if you go 1 - 2 followers deep on the other half, you're in a weird bot circle network.

I saw a BBC short video while in Europe last summer. It was surreal. The video was basically showing how awesome these aerial surveillance platforms were. At one point the reporter walked out of the control center and started dancing outside. It looked like he was having a lot of fun watching himself from a few thousand feet up. If anyone manages to find it please post it. There was no talk about the privacy implications. Just a puff piece to acclimatize people into thinking this was normal.

If you don't yet know what these balloons are from articles on Afghanistan, they provide very cheap ubiquitous physical surveillance on very large areas. If one of these things have LOS on you or your home, you no longer have any physical privacy.

If this doesn't piss you off you need to look up what a panopticon is.