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mschuster91 on June 7, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Superrich Endanger Democracy

I seriously hope so, but I doubt it. The problem is that we have ever more militarized police and, thanks to digitalization, basically a real-life 1984 scenario. Our German Interior minister actually wants access to Alexa and friends for the secret services.

KozmoNau7 on June 7, 2019 [–]

If the issue of massive inequality isn't taken care of, we are headed for even more of a cyberpunk dystopia than we are already living right now.

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