Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern
Why should we listen? France already massively ramped up their surveillance state after the Hebdo attacks (the perps were known to them beforehand anyway), and that did absolutely nothing to stop a much larger and more complex attack, also with known perps. A panopticon can't stop terrorists from lashing out violently, but it can certainly chill speech and promote totalitarian government.<p>That's their angle: use the panopticon to get blackmail material on 100% of people, then anyone who is inconvenient or needs to be controlled can be dealt with painlessly.<p>I can't understand how people can still give governments the benefit of the doubt when they've been exposed as liars repeatedly for years.