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In reply to the discussion: NYPD Cop Tries to ‘Cop a Feel’ on a Woman, Her Friend Tries to Film it, they Assault and Kidnap Him [View all]erronis
(23,951 posts)Eventually the police states around the world will figure out that they need special powers to prevent the proles from interfering with their duties.
We've already seen some censorship by the major social networks. This could be "enhanced" by letting the state approve every posting.
We've already seen ISPs blocking traffic for various reasons. Who knows if they aren't blocking lots of other traffic since if we don't see it we don't know it was sent out.
Many repressive regimes (China, Iran, US?, RU?) already do filtering of traffic. I'll bet that if I had some earth-shattering news about the USGov taking over Walmart's basements tomorrow at 3:15AM my message would not flow freely.
Don't the police already have cell-tower intercepts? Couldn't every squad car have an access-point to capture "non-authorized" transmissions?
How hard would it be to design a signal that interfered with cell-phone cameras? Just asking, not knowing.