You might be conflating or confusing two movies: Enemy of the State (1998) and Deja Vu (2006).

The former is about a corrupt politician and rogue intelligence group whom abuse dragnet surveillance and hacking tech to harass and persecute individuals. The latter is about top secret technology that can view almost anywhere on Earth some fixed hours in the past and is eventually used for time travel to stop a terrorist bombing.

They might claim they'll delete raw video in X days, but they'll keep the flawed metadata forever.

Oh don't worry, domestic targets will be declared "terrorist" under NSPM-7, so they can be hacked, jailed, and denaturalized too. Herr King Taco declares new laws and ways of doing things because old laws don't matter anymore.

Just wait for the un/intentional damage to international critical infrastructure, embarrassing revelations of errors, and blowback in terms of additional hacking of US critical infrastructure. This isn't going anywhere good.

Only sentiment and attitudes can be nudged in groups of people (a nondeterministic subset of individuals) using persuasion and manipulation tactics.

Reddit is owned by greedy corporate asshole hipsters in SF (including Sam Altman of OpenAI) who don't give 2 flying fucks about EU regulations, liberal democratic values like due process, transparency, or benefit of the doubt, or human review that doesn't involve bullshit justifications to double-down on the original, undisclosed "pronouncement" of the AI.

Where opaque, proprietary algorithms decide without evidence or appeal to instaban long-time, constructive users for "reasons".

Never try to build an elaborate homestead in the surf zone of an ocean controlled by some mercurial megacorp.

Multi-version or vendored dependencies are needed. And separate and isolate the system dependencies from app ones.

Governance and stability like NixOS, CentOS, and Arch. /s

The list of things I will not use includes systemd (and thus nix), flatpak, and compiz. Sigh.

Anti-choice and anti-consumer forcing latest versions of an OS is a deal-breaker.

And a GDPR law and laws for ownership over PII and personal data. Without them, the data brokers and megacorps, police departments, and intelligence agencies are allowed to stalk people and pry into everyone's lives on an indefinite timeline.

If PMs are gambling then so are stock markets and any sort of speculative, financialized "investment" that doesn't involve lending a real business doing something real money directly. Perhaps we need to forbid all speculative investments including CDS, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives and only allow fixed rate loans and bonds issued to named individuals that cannot be exchanged.

Too big to jail, fail, and will continue passing on even more bullshit fees, worse service, and rate increases to subsidize welfare for rich people's data centers.

The three-tiered system of criminal punishment doesn't permit charging, trying, convicting, and sentencing rich people and/or celebrities. They also get pardons on federal crimes and don't even have to "donate" "support" if they're family, good friends, or symbolic influencers.