Added: Jul 7, 2008
From: HuesForAlice
Duration: 4:24
Vote for the Movie at the Bitfilm Awards:http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/member.php?page=fd&fid=1115&id=111120&category_token=FXThanks for supporting me!www.bigbrotherstate.com - Watch the Movie in better Quality.The Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom but what we refer to as repressive legislation.Since terrorism has become a global threat, especially after 9/11, governments all over the world have started enforcing laws which, so the governments say, should increase national security.These laws obviously aim at another goal: the states gaining more and more control of their citizens at the cost of our privacy and freedom.
Channel: Film
Tags: big bigbrotherstate brother cameras david huesforalice mass police public scharf state surveillance
Rating: 4.87 (769 ratings) Views: 214776' favoriteCount='1396 Comments: 325
pr038000kosova Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - discard
BooBooLane Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - What is an anarchosyndicalist principle?
vgleeson Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - two of the guys scanned names are Winston Smith and George Llewro (Orwell)those who understand the significance of these names will have seen this a long time coming
baguazhang2 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Suppose that surveillance systems magically had the ability to differentiate between public and private matters, and useful and useless information. Suppose, just hypothetically, that crime rates were lowered 90 percent by cameras that had 100 percent accurate face recognition software and other technologies. Suppose that all the fears that people have about surveillance mentioned in this video were assuaged. Are these cameras, e-mail scanners, ID cards...etc wrong to install and use? Why?
FatherTime89 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - I'd give the probability of all those hypotheticals happening a very very slim chance. How could those system magically differentiate between useful and useless, private and public information without human assistance? Do you honestly think crime will drop by 90% or that public fear will go away whilst 1984 remains a classic (and that book is so great I doubt it'll stop being considered a classic)?
baguazhang2 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - To be completely honest, the idea of a surveillance society frightens me. What I'm basically trying to do is find an objective argument against such a society. Reasons like "the cameras are unsightly" are subjective, emotional, and ultimately transient objection that will validate widespread surveillance once each objection is remedied.
baguazhang2 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - When does invasion of privacy become a concern for you? Is it after a few hundred cameras are erected in the city, or few million? After loudspeakers tell you off using cameras with face recognition software, and you get ticketed for speeding or jaywalking when the cameras catch you? Should new laws be created to protect out privacy? I'm just looking for opinions, that's all.
WeeMan411 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - There already are laws to prevent that. Just most places tend to ignore them. You actualy have the right to demand any footage of you caught on CCTV, given you have the time, date, place, etc. Thing is, most places will simply ignore you. Anyone who says to remove cameras altogether are simply idiots. To a limit, they are there to protect our selves. This type of thing is public matters. When it becomes private, such as e-mail scanning, call screening, etc. then it becomes an issue.
WeeMan411 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Lower post firstTry this out, send an email to a friend, and within that email put the sentence "bomb the queen". I tested this with a friend of mine, it took over 2 weeks to reach him. Now I don't know everything about PCs, but email is pretty much instananeous, obviously depending on net connection, server status etc.Personal documents like emails should not be screened. It is a completely blatent breach of your personal space.
baguazhang2 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - I know that Echelon monitors communication throughout the world. Here in the States, we have also have "Tempest" which reads your computer monitor, and "Carnivore" which reads your e-mail.
WeeMan411 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Pretty much all mail is screened now. Since 9/11 allowed Bush to make some new laws allowing him to. Just another step towards governement taking control and America turning into the Big Brother continent.
baguazhang2 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - I've got the feeling the UK will turn into a Big Brother state before the US (no offense), but the US will be soon to follow. We have "free speech zones" now, and it's becoming increasingly harder to take part in a peaceful protest. One problem is that freedoms (for lack of a better word) are taken away incrementally and these increments span many years. It's also hard to define when "enough is enough".
Skiboni Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Imagine you invent a new energy source. You call, email, travel to your investors or engineers. The people in power, who sell their own energy, now has the ability to block your new invention or steal it or patented it first and lock it away. The same thing for your political plans. Consider that Bush is legally able to do what Nixon was convicted,Impeached for. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Every time. It always starts with the best intentions.Security is an Illusion
TheBlitz1 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - ah trusted computing is the same thing information censorship; A despot tyrannical thing to establish.
dsmfishgal Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - 9/11 gave his administration the excuse they were already looking for, but we the people should have put an end to this crap long ago.
dsmfishgal Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Yes, I'd say they are still wrong to install on the simple but important premise that we the people have a right to privacy. Plus, no good can come from living like this. Or what good that does come will be far outweighed by the bad. The government and private security firms have no right to this information, not to mention it infringes on our 5th amendment right against self-incrimination, which provides protection for the privacy of personal information. Why spy on us?
mazzini3210 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Yes BB is coming to the UK fast. Watch my video to explain more........
videochristv Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Cool visuals, can I play this live? That was a rhetorical question. Love
nickward4 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - good stuff, man.
Anonymoose21 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Great Benjamin Franklin quote at the end. Excellent work.
almea85 Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - this bull shit jus another way to control people
zacagalaba Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Excellent vid! Thx for making and sharing it! Hopefully it opened some eyes. Vive La Resistance! Leve Het Verzet! Long Live The Resistance! And the same in Arabic. Lets embrace state-borders once again, coz we need them to disable the personal stateborders and government control. Say no to globalism, say no to the globe of one people, say YES to the globe of different peoples. Join Freedom Force International = The Resistance, Het Verzet, La Resistance! Greetz from Belgium, Brussels!
sheryanne Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - great vid.
CUCProductions Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - big brother is the best show ever!oh... your talking about real life?
pr038000kosova Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - ok ok ok