Pre-Crime in the UK (www.openrightsgroup.org)
from Dellpeanuts5@lemmy.dbzer0.com to privacy@lemmy.ml on 18 Feb 06:59
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38087394

Police in the United Kingdom are using online content, referrals (prevent), and mass surveillance to identify people who may commit crime in the future.

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haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com on 18 Feb 08:32 next collapse

We saw these movies well before we were 16 or 18. Maybe today’s grown ups actually didn’t watch them and are braindead because of it?

Mandatory watching exercise for everyone:

  • the matrix (only the first one, the rest is meh)
  • 12 monkeys
  • minority report
  • oblivion
  • idiocracy
  • don’t look up

The themes are always the same. Peak dystopia, sometimes facilitated by helpful idiots.

Magnus@lemmy.ml on 18 Feb 11:15 next collapse

Or read some of Phillip K Dicks books I’d also add the film Brazil to that list

dev_null@lemmy.ml on 18 Feb 13:38 collapse

Oblivion? It was all right, and I recommend it, but I wouldn’t call it a mandatory watch, it didn’t have any special message

haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com on 18 Feb 14:40 collapse

Oh? And you’re the authority on that?

The question you are trying to ask is “what special message do you see in that movie?”

Of course my friend, let me tell you.

Oblivion has this very nice plot twist where the main character was actually

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Helping the aliens gut the planet while thinking he was saving humanity. He’s one of the most planet sized helpful idiots I have ever seen. So yes, you don’t want to be him so think twice before you act on your assumption of reality but rather think for yourself.

I do agree though that its not necessarily the same league as the others. But seeing people acting the way they do, they must be submitted to 24/7 reeducation on freedom, privacy, healthy relationships, democracy, etc.

dev_null@lemmy.ml on 18 Feb 15:05 collapse

Oh? And you’re the authority on that?

Well yes, I am the authority on my opinions, just like anyone else is on theirs.

I do agree though that its not necessarily the same league as the others.

That’s what I mean, I don’t think it belongs next to Matrix or 12 Monkeys. It’s a run of the mill Tom Cruise action film. Very enjoyable, but it doesn’t break any new ground, in my opinion.

0x0@programming.dev on 18 Feb 12:53 next collapse

Was Minority Report a documentary too?

XTL@sopuli.xyz on 18 Feb 14:18 collapse

Most sci-fi is. At least if you squint a little.

DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml on 19 Feb 07:55 collapse

If you don’t like it, then move across the Channel or to Ireland.

phase@lemmy.8th.world on 19 Feb 09:36 collapse

You meant go to Europ? :o)

[deleted] on 19 Feb 09:44 collapse

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