This is one of the essays from the Writing Challenge 2023 that didn’t make it into the book, but is still worth reading! Find more essays in our latest book ‘How to Avoid Digital Slavery’. By Cherry Hughes “What do we need to be scared of ?” You may well ask. Where shall we start?
London, England: An anti-ULEZ vigilante group known as the “Blade Runners” has committed itself to removing or disabling every last ULEZ camera in London. 90% of the cameras in South East London have already been “retired”. Within London’s ‘Ultra Low Emission Zone’, people are charged a daily fee of up to £17.50 for driving cars
Wake-up call ‘… we should not and will not!’ A talk given in Canadian Parliament. Ever thought what SMART stands for? S for surveillanceM for monitoringA for analysisR for reportingT for technology 15-minute cities with cameras set up in every corner are not for your benefit. They are here to control everyone. Maximum surveillance allows
By Dylan Roberts Lenin: “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” These are damaging times; every day is difficult The daily spectacle is a shadow play of jokers and demons; it is a permanent burlesque. You are stuffed with images, sordid and opaque. The rich
By T J Martin Germany in the 1930s. Hitler’s Third Reich rising. We’ve all viewed the footage. And we’ve all recoiled in horror at its scenes: Mass processions singing, circling, marching; swastikas dancing, torches waving in the darkness; books tossed into flames, rising as smoke and ash. Narrating, a voice-over calmly intones the words of
The Metropolitan Police has started using live facial recognition cameras across London. This surveillance technology turns us into walking ID cards and treats members of the public like suspects in a high-tech police line up. These cameras are a threat to our privacy and freedoms – and they need to be stopped. The Met’s own
15-minute cities are ghettos that will control people and restrict their freedom of movement. They are part of the ‘great reset’ and Agenda 2030, issued by Klaus Schwab and others from the World Economic Forum. However, those who want us to ‘own nothing and be happy‘, or in other words, who want us to be
Rahima Mahmut speaks about life inside the world’s ultimate surveillance state and the need to ban Hikvision from the UK. Surveillance cameras made by companies linked to crimes against humanity watch millions of people every day in the UK. Hikvision and Dahua facilitate Chinese government’s persecution of the Uyghurs, from forced sterilisation in “re-education camps”
By Didi Rankovic What some might see as UK authorities’ “age verification fixation” continues, this time with pilots whose purported goal is, as ever, a noble one – make sure alcohol is not sold to minors in stores or hospitality venues. But – as ever – there’s quite a bit of “surveillance state-creation hazard” in
Oxford council calls people who are concerned about restrictions on our freedom of movement, surveillance, and data collection—guess what—conspiracy theorists. They have also renamed the ‘climate lockdowns’ and now call them ‘traffic filters’, because it sounds better. Ironically, in their attempt to calm everyone down, they confirm the very concerns mentioned above. Oxford council is