In order to combat ongoing human rights violations, human rights have to be abolished bit by bit. There is nothing benign or misguided about this to me, this is calculated and predatory.

Omniscience and omnipotence by states and corporations lead by very human, sometimes sick people, may make the world "safer" from small fish (and even that is not clear), but might also make powerful sadists untouchable. It might make fixing the problems we have with corruption and abuse impossible, the final kicking away of the ladder.

You think it can't get worse, wait until the trap actually snaps shut. That happened in Germany in the 1930s and people watched on like it was a dream, a game, or over soon.

What if that happens again, but there is no outside world to invade and rescue anyone from themselves? What if it's not done by crazy narcissists bent on destruction and self-destruction, but "just" people who like and got used to power, and will not ever let it go?

I know I'm fearmongering here, but I just can't help but extrapolate and be extremely concerned. And I know I'm not alone, I just suck at expressing it without coming across wide-eyed. But there's better people for that, example Eben Moglen, from "Freedom of thought requires free media" ( http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t... )

> We’re going to live in a world unless we do something quickly in which our media consume us and spit in the government’s cup. There will never have been any place like it before and if we let it happen, there will never be any place different from it again.*

and

> We have a responsibility, we know. That’s how Berlin became the freest city that I go to because we know, because we have a responsibility, because we remember, because we have been on both sides of the wall. That must not be lost now. If we forget, no other forgetting will ever happen. Everything will be remembered. Everything you read, all through life, everything you listened to, everything you watched, everything you searched for.

> Surely we can pass along to the next generation a world freer than that. Surely we must. What if we don’t?

> What will they say when they realize that we lived at the end of a thousand years of struggling for freedom of thought. At the end, when we had almost everything, we gave it away, for convenience, for social networking. Because Mr. Zuckerberg asked us to. Because we couldn’t find a better way to talk to our friends. Because we loved the beautiful pretty things that felt so warm in the hand. Because we didn’t really care about the future of freedom of thought, because we considered that to be someone else’s business. Because we thought it was over. Because we believed we were free. Because we didn’t think there was any struggling left to do. That’s why we gave it all away.

> Is that what we're gonna tell them?

> Free thought requires free media. Free media requires free technology. We require ethical treatment when we go to read, to write, to listen and to watch. Those are the hallmarks of our politics. We need to keep those politics until we die. Because if we don’t, something else will die. Something so precious that many, many of our fathers and mothers gave their life for it. Something so precious, that we understood it to define what it meant to be human; it will die.