The biggest obstacle to enacting fascist surveillance and control over western society is getting the relevant laws through the legislature. And I don&#x27;t mean laws like &quot;all communication must be monitored, but rather &quot;criticism of the Supreme Leader is punishable by death.&quot; Without that, none of the rest gets you to fascism. With that, all of the rest could be built in short order.<p>I think the paranoia over potential tyrannical uses of this stuff to be misplaced. If you want to avoid tyranny, you need to prevent your leadership from being taken over by a tyrant. That&#x27;s not to say that ubiquitous surveillance and such is not a worry, just that the worry isn&#x27;t that it will turn our countries into Nazi Germany 2.0.