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The world you're describing sounds like hell to me. I'd rather become Amish than live in it.

Also, I would point out that the advent of police cameras has by no means ended controversies over police brutality. It has simply revealed what should have been obvious: we do not agree about what constitues police brutality. I expect the same would be true when it comes to sex.

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Completely agree. The GP reads like a really depressing form of fatalism: "I guess tech giants control the world now, and democracies have no say."

Also, a reality where everything is recorded all the time would enable some nightmarish forms of social control that it would seem hard to escape from. Imagine an abusive husband that insists on performing a daily review of all activities.

That doesn’t make sense, at least staying with your second sentence. Many examples of police brutality have come to light that would have otherwise been hidden had we had no cameras.

My point was that there are many cases where different people view the footage and simply disagree about whether the violence was justified.

true, but in this scenario it is at least better to have the video to debate about vs just testimony

Especially since the average person will side with the police office the majority of the time. The fact that they're arguing over it instead is an improvement.

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