{"id":3797,"date":"2012-10-15T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2012-10-15T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:45:00","slug":"small-brother-is-watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/small-brother-is-watching-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Brother is Watching You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people demonize CCTV as something as a threat to our privacy, as a tool for ostensible Big Brothers everywhere to potentially be watching us. But in many ways, I think they can do just the opposite: they can empower common people, and act as a check on oppressors, who thrive on controlling the flow of information. As an example, check out this video below, which compiles CCTV footage to show the following sequence of events: <\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhO-ra2H4FY?version=3\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" ><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>1] Rabia Imran, daughter of Shahbaz Sharif, visits a bakery in Lahore on a Sunday morning. The bakery is closed.<\/p>\n<p>2] One of her minions gets it opened. There&#8217;s a sweeper inside, who informs Rabia that the shop will open in the afternoon, and he obviously can&#8217;t sell her anything right away.<\/p>\n<p>3] But Rabia needs her sugar kick. She needs it now.<\/p>\n<p>4] She calls another minion. The two minions take the sweeper aside and slap him around. They leave.<\/p>\n<p>5] A few hours later, three more minions, accompanied by uniformed cops, come to the bakery. <\/p>\n<p>6] They take the sweeper outside and thrash him.<\/p>\n<p>7] Then, with the police watching, they bundle him into a van. A few hours later, we are informed, he is dropped off bearing marks of severe assault.<\/p>\n<p>And all this is on CCTV, undeniably there. They can&#8217;t even deny it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you could argue, so what, we all know this happens, this is hardly a revelation. True. But I think there is a possibility that if Big Brother knows that Small Brother is watching, he might be inclined to behave just a little better. So thank goodness for all the tools of surveillance and of spreading information that empower all of us.<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;   *&nbsp;   *<\/p>\n<p>I hardly need to add that even though this particular footage is from Pakistan, this kind of attitude and behaviour is endemic in India as well. We&#8217;re also a developing nation with a feudal mindset. No?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people demonize CCTV as something as a threat to our privacy, as a tool for ostensible Big Brothers everywhere to potentially be watching us. But in many ways, I think they can do just the opposite: they can empower common people, and act as a check on oppressors, who thrive on controlling the flow of information. As an example, check out this video below, which compiles CCTV footage to show the following sequence of events: <\/p>\n<p>1] Rabia Imran, daughter of Shahbaz Sharif, visits a bakery in Lahore on a Sunday morning. The bakery is closed.<\/p>\n<p>2] She gets one of her minions to get it opened. There&#8217;s a sweeper inside, who informs her that the shop will open in the afternoon, and he obviously can&#8217;t sell her anything right away.<\/p>\n<p>3] But Rabia needs her sugar kick. She needs it now.<\/p>\n<p>4] She calls another minion. Her two minions take the sweeper aside and slap him around. They leave.<\/p>\n<p>5] A few hours later, three more minions, accompanied by uniformed cops, come to the bakery. <\/p>\n<p>6] They take the sweeper outside and thrash him.<\/p>\n<p>7] Then, with the police watching, they bundle him into a van. A few hours later, we are informed, he is dropped off bearing marks of severe assault.<\/p>\n<p>And all this is on CCTV, undeniably there. They can&#8217;t even deny it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you could argue, so what, we all know this happens, this is hardly a revelation. True. But I think there is a possibility that if Big Brother knows that Small Brother is watching, he might be inclined to behave just a little better. So thank goodness for all the tools of surveillance and of spreading information that empower all of us.<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;   *&nbsp;   *<\/p>\n<p>I hardly need to add that even though this particular footage is from Pakistan, this kind of attitude and behaviour is endemic in India as well. We&#8217;re also a developing nation with a feudal mindset. No?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Small Brother is Watching You - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/small-brother-is-watching-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Small Brother is Watching You - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some people demonize CCTV as something as a threat to our privacy, as a tool for ostensible Big Brothers everywhere to potentially be watching us. 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