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Doesn’t require A, but the I is absolutely required, intelligence is what the Stasi did.

Automating what we know is a dangerous policy should not be treated as lightly as you’ve put it just because you are bored of people quoting 1984 to you.

Have you considered the reason they are quoting it more and more lately might be because real life has been getting closer and closer to it?

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Agree to an extent, but people are throwing it around in the context of vaccine passports and other state actions that are pretty reasonable.

Frankly the tossing around of 1984 has degraded discourse because its used way too much and often ignores nuance in favor of a slippery slope argument.

There have always been fringe opinions. They too get a much wider audience today.

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