I seriously doubt this. I also seriously doubt the state had a clue about how the Internet would evolve. 

kepford

I guess everything was thought out from the beginning, that's why the Cypherpunk movement was born at the beginning of the internet, they already knew what the game was about.

riberet19

security

# [Surveillance capitalism is also just regular old surveillance](https://treacherous.tech/2024/03/31/real-time-bidding/)

https://andrewfordlyons.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/patternz.png

> Tl;dr: Surveillance is a natural outcome of the internet as it was created. Surveillance capitalism isn’t an innovation, but a resource extraction industry, and states don’t need to make fancy tools to get a lot of information on dissidents or undesirables, they just need a budget line to buy it.
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> ## Real-Time Bidding
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> https://andrewfordlyons.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/rtb-data.png
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> ### [... read more](https://treacherous.tech/2024/03/31/real-time-bidding/)

