Government Surveillance Research Paper

I believe that government surveillance does greatly cause loss of individuality and was explained extremely well in the “Chilling Effects” section; basically because people are now aware of government surveillance, due to Snowden, the way that people search on their computer and how they talk, has changed. Its self-censorship, in the fear that their private thoughts are not private anymore, society is beginning to not exercise their individual freedom to speech, they are not questioning laws, politics, and government movement as much as they would have before. It’s a sort of self-imposed loss of freedom, due to fear of incrimination for our individuality. Panoptic in the English language are because of two inventions known as panopticons. The first and most well-known panopticon was conceived by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1787. Bentham created the idea for a circular prison with a central tower where the guards could see the inmates all the time. The other, which is not as well-known was also created in the 18th century, it was a contraption containing pictures of attractions, that people viewed through an opening. Panoptic is a word derived from Greek panoptēs, meaning "all-seeing”. * So, knowing the meaning and …show more content…
I personally think that this is bad for society, while it is convenient when online, I think that if everyone is only subjected to what they believe and never have to deal with things that they disagree with, that this will lead to a society where everyone thinks that they are right all the time, and never learn to deal with