Call it surveillance or whatever. It really isn’t. Trust and power as manifested by modern technology was and should be a reflection of real life trust and power. Historically, human societies’ governing bodies had all the power to exert as they wish on their citizens. Past couple decades were a deviation from this normal, not in the real but in the online world. You could work against the values of your own government without them being able to find and catch you. This legislation is just a correction to the resulting power imbalance, as the online world has increasingly more power on real world.
I think we’ll see the internet and digital ecosystems being segregated into separate parts with boundaries correlating to those of nation-states more and more by the year. As a member of a nation who is not exactly very comfortable with a US-dominant world, I’m all in for it. It’s a national security issue for me. Knowing that some three letter agencies on the other side of the world can surveil me against my rights as per my country’s laws. Or that payment systems (Visa/Mastercard), or Google Maps (you don’t know how vital of a service it is) or satellite internet[1] can stop working if US and her allies determine my time has come.
Developing technologies has a power-centralizing effect, and very often it creates a disadvantage for everyone else who didn’t invent the thing first. Not exactly the world I’d have pictured as a desirable one had I lived 5 centuries ago. Maybe read some Ted Kaczynski?
1: Elon Musk stopped Starlink service in Gaza. They have no communications with the outside world.
I think we’ll see the internet and digital ecosystems being segregated into separate parts with boundaries correlating to those of nation-states more and more by the year. As a member of a nation who is not exactly very comfortable with a US-dominant world, I’m all in for it. It’s a national security issue for me. Knowing that some three letter agencies on the other side of the world can surveil me against my rights as per my country’s laws. Or that payment systems (Visa/Mastercard), or Google Maps (you don’t know how vital of a service it is) or satellite internet[1] can stop working if US and her allies determine my time has come.
Developing technologies has a power-centralizing effect, and very often it creates a disadvantage for everyone else who didn’t invent the thing first. Not exactly the world I’d have pictured as a desirable one had I lived 5 centuries ago. Maybe read some Ted Kaczynski?
1: Elon Musk stopped Starlink service in Gaza. They have no communications with the outside world.