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Guest Post: Why Free Markets Are Incompatible with the Surveillance State

This guest post originally appeared on Tess Gadwa/Lotus Rose’s substack. Views expressed belong solely to the original author of the view/opinion, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of RT4. I started day trading in the Fall of 2020. My trades were for just a few dollars each—with commission-free trading, you can do […]

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Carceral Surveillance

Philosophers have long opined on the inextricable nature of incarceration and surveillance. Prisons have historically been the testing ground for new surveillance technologies. Bentham’s panopticon with it’s single guard tower overseeing a circular cell block eventually evolved into a lone guard monitoring an entire prison’s CCTV which eventually evolved into police departments surveilling entire cities […]