Canada

What pisses me off even more than hiding war criminals is the fact that we are living in the time of the greatest assaults on privacy that humanity has ever seen and countless 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' bullshit and yet at the exact same moment we are seeing stuff like this.

Forget advertising... I can't remember a time when I bought something due to a targeted ad, but it is 100% about curtailing opposition to the government. They don't care if you are an armed terrorist (or maybe they do... they want you to at least try to mobilize your plans so they can either claim it a success or justify the need for more) or just an activist trying to make real change.

I remember back in the 90s when reading social studies books about environmentalism and they mentioned several South American activists who were machine gunned for their anti-logging activities. Despite all the hubbub about that there was not a single damn mention of how fucking evil those companies were and basically had the violence depicted as normal.

No one has nothing to hide. Especially if you think you have nothing to hide. There is no such thing as information that can't be used against you in some way. Also the people at the top seem like they only got there due to a life of white collar crime or facilitating such. Donald Trump is amazingly secretive about his finances and was convicted of all charges of financial fraud.

They are going to make it possible for only the biggest scum to rise to the top. Basically if you want to make it big in the corporate ladder you need to do serious bullshit. Same for politics. How do you do that when you have committed serious shit? Well the fact that you figured a way to do it despite all that surveillance will be the point. Those that get caught are weeded out.

And heaven help you if you are trying to make the world a better place. If you were ever poor and had to shoplift to survive once in your life... they will make it public and make it that you cannot be trusted... but if it turned out you were a fixer for killing environmentalists in some third world country? Well then, expect the media to call it BS, a huge lawsuit against whistleblowers, followed by them not showing up in court because they committed suicide with multiple gun shots to their own head.