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... That said, I don't view the technology itself as being bad. But I do see it as a tool for further oppressing individual liberty. As the technology advances, so to will the ability to use it as aggression. The world's population has more than doubled just in my lifetime. With more population density comes less freedom and more mass control of individual behavior. IMO, that's what is happening in the EU right now, and this particular issue is just a small part of it.
Same can be said for guns. I do believe if technology was as prevalent in 1789 as it is today, there would have been a 13th amendment guaranteeing rights of access to information and technology. Instead we have a bunch of hodge-podge laws which often countermand each other. There is plenty of yelling and screaming about undermining our constitutional right to bear arms, but virtually nothing about access to information and technology. The phrase 'pen is mightier than the sword' comes to mind.