If America was Internet

This is a post that I have contemplated for a long, LONG time. Now, I finally blew my lid, after another Internet incident that is too boring for you to write about. But I digress. So, if America was Internet, then you would have had to:

• install cameras and microphones in each of your rooms, including bedrooms and washrooms.
• allow total strangers including foreign nationals access to those cameras and microphones.
• wear a tracker bracelet at all times and allow total strangers including foreign nationals access to tracking data.
• sign into log books in each of the buildings you visit.
• they would also stamp your body, upon entry and exit from each building and check previous stamps.
• prove your innocence to cops. There would have been no lawyers because law enforcement would have operated on the premise of presumption of guilt.
• sign contracts before being allowed to speak. The punishment for saying wrong words would have been immediate termination. If you said them from a crowd, then the whole crowd would have been terminated.
• allow random strangers to tattoo or brand their likes or dislikes of your person, on your skin.
• never question authority because the power of anyone in position of power over you would have been absolute and unappealable.
• buy a new car, appliances, furniture, and house, several times a year, because of security vulnerabilities allegedly found in them by total strangers.
• beg vendors of the above for fixes to obvious, glaring defects that should have been found had only the vendor bothered to turn an appliance on or to start the car's engine and drive a few miles.

How did we get there? Initially, Internet tried to mimic American society. Internet providers even went to courts to protect the privacy of their subscribers. But these heroic efforts have soon been broken by twisting ISP's hands into compliance, and now each Internet-related entity puts convenience and profit above all. This doctrine could not have been constrained within the bounds of the Internet, and it has inevitably spilled back into our society, having all but replaced the values that American society had been founded upon. We are SOL.

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