Richard Stallman on Nostr: [2/3] … and avoid the surveillance. But once a country gives everyone a national ID ...
[2/3] … and avoid the surveillance. But once a country gives everyone a national ID number, every activity's managers find it convenient to add another brick to the wall of Orwellian surveillance. It comes to seem "normal", so no one hesitates to impose this on everyone else. Contrast Spain's park with the Boston Aquarium, which I visited recently. It sells entry tickets for specific times, and encourages people to buy them by internet - but you can go there and buy a ticket for whatever …
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