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So, my friend Jamais has this idea about the participatory panopticon, in which the traditional government dream of universal surveillance as a method of control is turned over to the citizenry, in whose hands it is as much a tool for fighting oppression as it is for enabling it.

As recording devices and wireless networks and video sharing sites become pervasive, that idea is rapidly becoming reality, and unsurprisingly, lots of people in authority don’t like the way it makes them accountable, and are doing their very best to ban it.

Dumb, really.

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