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Comment author: Clarity 13 November 2015 12:35:07AM 0 points [-]

Is that bad?

Comment author: gjm 13 November 2015 08:37:50AM 2 points [-]

It seems pretty bad to me, and everyone else I've heard talk about the idea has found it pretty chilling. One more way for an already quite totalitarian state to exercise control over its citizens. Of course there may be some selection bias -- maybe the people who talk about it tend to be the people who find it scary.