Submission + - Ukrainian Government Attempts Censorship Through Intimidation By Text (vice.com)
aeranvar writes: The Ukraine government's text message to protestors is a sharp reminder of what can be done with the data collected through government surveillance. Whether the protestors have a legitimate concern or not is irrelevant. This seems to be a clear attempt by the government to intimidate protestors into dispersing through using personal technology as both the means of surveillance and the delivery mechanism for an implied threat. This clearly undermines a motivation for large protests: it isn't easy to intimidate someone in a crowd. because it isn't easy to identify everyone in a crowd. When government surveillance efforts are described as 'Orwellian', critics are quick to dismiss those descriptions as a fringe, extremist perception. At what hypothetical point (possibly a point we've already passed) should every rational individual be able to agree that government surveillance has gone too far?