As the title says I live in a surveillance state where among other things the government uses paid snitches, listening devices in your home, installs Trojans/malware in your phone and computer, even outside agents can stalk and observe you 7/24.
I may not be a target of any of this as I am didn’t commit any of the crimes required to do these (for example being involved with cannabis, or helping illegal aliens or some crimes that actually warrant this like organized crime and so forth)
However with the snitch system were convicted criminals are incentivized to incriminate others to save their own skin I am not put at ease with assurances that if you have nothing to hide that you would have nothing to fear.
I do not believe however that the surveillance state is intended to prevent terrorism or organized crime. I believe the true intention of the surveillance state is to consolidate power and nip any sort of true dissent in the bud.
So in imho if you were to call out the government on their bullshit you would stand to be victimized. Even if you are well within your rights with regards to freedom of speech/thought/assembly.
So if everything on your computer may be subject to government’s prying eyes, you’d need your own language and alphabet/writing system to at least retain the ability to keep notes and write a diary.
I would like to be able to note down my thoughts without having to fear the government can read it.
I was thinking of something like Tolkiens Elven tongue/language. I know it is a lot of work especially since it is only for internal use.
What’s your opinion on this?
You don’t need to make an entire language, you only need a cypher.
I invite you to do some research of cryptography. There are ways to make messages and information inaccessible to anyone else, prying governments and businesses be damned.
You should also do research into online data privacy.
If this is something that you’re genuinely worried about, there are steps that you can take to mitigate your risk.
[Post edited to be less rude and more productive]
They could live in China
That’s unfairly mean and aggressive. Kindly remember which community this is in.
I didn’t mean it like that. Rather, I was taken back by the paranoid and unfocused language being used.
Kudos to the edit to be more productive.
How can language be paranoid and what about my post was unfocused?
It’s alright if they can make a case why I am neccessary delusional and can make a valid argument that what I described above is not reflective of the current state of affairs I will gladly yield. I take offense to them using a mental health condition to discredit somebody. It’s intellectually lazy.
I didn’t mean any offense, friend. My apologies. I have updated my reply to be more productive and less critical, I hope you can find it useful.
Ok Mom.
How so?