Comments on: Big Brother goes to the Olympics http://www.samizdata.net/2004/08/big-brother-goes-to-the-olympi/ A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Guy Herbert http://www.samizdata.net/2004/08/big-brother-goes-to-the-olympi/#comment-241683 Guy Herbert Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:44:30 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=6543#comment-241683 Not that even half-way compentent terrorists would be conducting conversations en clair in English, Arabic or Farsi. Sometimes one feels sorry for would-be terrorists who aren’t good enough at it to trouble the dumb-weight of much so-called security. Their failure to do so provides a most unfortunate record of “success” for mass surveillance.

This is the circular proof of the merit of Big Brother. If there’s no terrorism (crime, anti-social behaviour, …) it’s because of the surveillance, and so we need more surveillance to make sure it will continue to work. If there is something–anything–undesirable, we need more surveillance in order to suppresss it.

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