We have technology that citizens can use to alter the balance of power between free citizens and tyrannical government. We have to organize ourselves to use this technology, to constrain and publicize tyrannical behavior. We can’t let ourselves fall under the dominion of a police state if we can prevent it. Ubiquitous video recordings of government behavior can help. Every government official should know that what they do and say when they interact with citizens can find its way to YouTube in a matter of minutes.

The surveillance state has to come under surveillance.

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