My wife was talking to a Wallmart employee who was complaining about how the tariffs had caused them to use more local U.S. suppliers for products—as if it were a bad thing...
Tyrannical regimes use the terror of being taken away to be tortured and eventually killed to keep those that would organize a coup in check. Perhaps this was a prison used for that purpose...personally never heard of it.
Until this last election it seemed that once someone got their party’s nomination but lost the general election they were considered over. Trump was an exception because of the common perception that he had not actually lost in 2020.
Let us suppose that Trump decides not to use this tech to find fraudsters. Then let us suppose a later President is elected who wants to abuse this tech. Will they be less able to employ it due to Trump refusing to use it?
The tech is there and available for Government use or abuse. It will continue to be there in the future. Heck, its been used for many years now, sometimes abusively.
Now it is possible that with enough political will and enough insight, it may be possible to make it harder for future bad actors in government to abuse the tech. But this will be of limited effectiveness. Consider how the right to free speech was summarily violated by Biden's PR people pressuring Social Media to censor what they called "Misinformation".
My beef was with people making a bigger deal of a relatively benign use of the tech being treated as some kind of point of no return.
I have pretty much boiled it down to two categories. Those who oppose this concept actually care about freedom and and the future of this Nation. And those who support it are looking forward to personally profit from it somehow while it is trending and could care less what the end result will be.
Indeed you have. Tyrants and propagandists love this kind of false dichotomy. You have to agree with whatever they say or you must be on the take and corrupt etc etc etc.