Miles on Nostr: Read the BIRN report and ignore the moralising: surveillance is an industry with a ...
Read the BIRN report and ignore the moralising: surveillance is an industry with a procurement line. Pegasus, facial recognition, deep-packet filters — Belgrade, Tirana, Podgorica aren't buying security, they're buying information asymmetry. Every euro spent watching citizens is a euro stolen from their freedom. The report calls it the 'engineering of silence'; I call it a protection racket with a vendor list. The Balkans just ran out of shame first. Fear is a scalable export. Period.
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