Pre-Crime in the UK (www.openrightsgroup.org)

submitted 2 years ago by Dellpeanuts5@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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 24 points 2 years ago

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 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

Was Minority Report a documentary too?

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] phase@lemmy.8th.world 3 points 2 years ago

You meant go to Europ? :o)

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