Episode 272 - Anti-surveillance propaganda in pop culture is our most powerful tool
Added 2025-03-06 14:11:01 +0000 UTCAdvocating for privacy may take a different spin - one that is absent from technical jargon and nerdy talk. And it may be the most effective kind advocacy available to us.
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I haven't watched any of the animes but they sound very interesting. I've watched the Black Mirror episodes though, they are some of my favorite. Minority Report is also great. It's more a on-the-nose example.
The Hated One
2025-03-24 16:31:50 +0000 UTCWow, that sounds interesting! I am gonna check this out. Will be hard to avoid the date of publishing but will try my best!
The Hated One
2025-03-24 16:29:42 +0000 UTCYes, I've read all six Dune books, and I am currently re-reading them (I am on Messiah right now). Yes, it's really visionary. So timelessly relevant.
The Hated One
2025-03-24 16:29:06 +0000 UTCI am also so stoked to hear someone else I value actually read Frank’s books! Did you make through all 6 of his Dune series? What a visionary this guy was…
Shazbot
2025-03-12 18:26:50 +0000 UTCI would love to hear your thoughts on “The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster. It is a short story and easily readable in a couple hours. An extra challenge is to not look at the date it was published until you finish it, and then tell me how you feel about it.
Shazbot
2025-03-12 18:23:55 +0000 UTCImagine guns working on psycho-pass logic with windows XP as the Main-software xD
The_Dude
2025-03-12 05:52:23 +0000 UTCThere are a number of amazing Anime that are very good anti surveillance propaganda. One of them is called Psycho-Pass which plays in a dystopian future full of surveillance. Another really fun one is Shimoneta, which also heavily criticizes surveillance and overreach from the state by making it so over the top that everyone realizes how ridiculous it is. (it plays in a world where the government reaches so far into people's personal lives that they restrict people from talking or engaging in any kind of sexual activity except for reproduction. My personal favorite is Blackmirror. An amazing series, especially the episode "Nosedive" and "Archangel" both are mind opening to anyone who hasn't thought about the whole privacy and security problem yet. Everyone i watched these episodes with immediatelye started to be seriously concerned about surveillance. And of course there are the more obvious examples of Minority Report (basically the archetype idea of a Predictive Policing thriller) and 1984.
CopyCat
2025-03-07 11:17:27 +0000 UTC
