Massive surveillance & control
A skeptical look at the ‘great reset’: a technocratic agenda that waited years for a global crisis to exploit - How the ‘great reset’ ideology of un-elected bureaucrats would steer society towards massive surveillance & control:
Prior to this year, implementing worldwide lockdowns that destroy businesses, wreck the economy, and leave people destitute and stripped of their constitutional rights while trying to enact invasive contact tracing, immunity passports, and otherwise massive bio-electronic surveillance apparatuses would never have been accepted by the citizens of a free society.
“Contact tracing apps can be powerful weapons against the virus – but they can also be tools for state surveillance” — WEF report
According to the Dobrygowski, “The use of digital technology during the COVID-19 crisis offers clear lessons,” one of those being, “Target mistrust broadly to enable specific crisis-relevant tech.”
Would the idea of being forced to electronically prove your current health status in order to travel or even leave your own home have been acceptable 10 months ago?
“This new mindset would balance concerns over privacy and other issues with the potential to create value and improve lives” — WEF report
Just about every proponent of contact tracing and health passports, including the WEF, all declare that technology should be used and governed ethically, but you hardly see any mention of winning the consent of the people. Instead, they lobby stakeholders and policymakers to carry the torch in imparting the global vision from the top of the capstone and on-down.
Tyranny arrives in subtle stages. It’s slow at first, but before you realize it even exists, it has already won. That is what I see happening with the unholy merger of “the great reset” with “the new normal.” Those who pull the strings have been begging for a global crisis to unleash their worldwide restructuring of society and the economy.
How to Survive the 21st Century (at WEF in Davos in January 2020): Nuclear war, ecological collapse and technological disruption pose an existential threat to human civilization. Join a conversation that explores the challenges of the 21st century and how to address them before it is too late. Historian Yuval Harari said:
“In using our new divine powers of creation, we might make mistakes on a cosmic scale.”
“The power to hack human beings can of course be used for good purposes like provided much better healthcare, but if this power falls into the hands of a 21st Century Stalin, the result will be the worst totalitarian regime in human history, and we already have a number of applicants for the job of 21st Century Stalin.”
Tim Hinchliffe, the editor of The Sociable, has brilliantly depicted the above speech and comments of the historian Yuval Harari and the status of the affairs until the end of January 2020 in his article: Hackable humans can become godlike or fall to digital dictators lording over data colonies. I highly recommend it!
CHINA vs USA
‘Don’t let China use American tech to power Orwellian surveillance state’: ‘We now see China for what it is — not for what we wish it would be’
‘China is stealing our stuff and they’re not even hiding it’: US tech protection task force: ‘It’s no wonder why their stuff looks remarkably like ours’
Tech arms race with China blurs ‘physical, digital, biological lines’: Speaking at the 2019 WEF in Davos, Switzerland, Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe says that the blurring and fusion of physical, digital, and biological tech in the tech arms race with China is “reaching an inflection point” that will determine the future of global politics and the global economy.
US defense intelligence warns of AI-human hybrid soldiers from China: China is moving towards merging AI with humans, and the United States Defense Intelligence Agency sees this as a major concern for the future of warfare.
CHINA
Congressional report rips China a new one on Orwellian use of technology, urges action against egregious human rights abuses
5 ways China weaponizes tech against its own citizens, warning signs — Recognizing 5 ways China abuses tech against its people, so history doesn’t repeat itself
China’s abuses of technology against its own people should serve as a warning as to how unethical use of tech could be justified by governments the world-over. Here are five ways China abuses technology against its own people, and a few warning signs for spotting when governments wish to justify the weaponization of technology against their own people: Predictive Policing, Mass Surveillance, High-Tech Cameras Everywhere, DNA Profiling of an Entire Population for Detention, and Censorship
China’s abuse of technology and their justifications: China’s abuse of technology in the State-sponsored persecution of Uighurs demonstrates what the Communist regime is capable of unleashing against the West.
The Sociable's extensive reporting on China covered many topics over the past two years.