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| Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms by Jeremy at 2:09 pm EST, Jan 17, 2004 | |||
To a post-cold-war generation of Americans, the prospect of living under surveillance is no longer scary but cool. ... essentially a scam: propaganda for a new business model that only pretends to give consumers more control while in fact subjecting them to increasingly sophisticated forms of monitoring and manipulation. The true beneficiaries are the marketers, advertisers and corporate executives who have a large stake in seeing surveillance portrayed as benign. If you opt to follow this link, you can look forward to another one of those silly juxtapositions of disparate statistics that is supposed to be deeply insightful but is really meaningless. | |||
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