Source: Hacker News
Article note: Years ago, I was arguing (with some CS/EE PhDs) that democracy can't survive without anonymity because mass surveillance implies mass coercion, even without any specific action.
Now that it's actively happening, the one who was most arguing against the idea has admitted they no longer go to protests because there doesn't seem to be an upshot and they're afraid of being the subject of some "Radical Leftist UK Professors Seen At Anti-Government Protest" propaganda.
I looked over my glasses at them but didn't say anything.
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