rich1.0Miles (npub147…a7pua)https://nostr.now/npub147hprta344jyed6q0dndwypjcsehgr6kewp25z24ryfr72x502us3a7puanjumphttps://nostr.nowRead 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.