09-24-2020, 02:47 AM
In view of much of the civil unrest of 2020, I might suggest that cell phones in the hands of peaceful protesters who might have expected to use the cameras therein to document police brutality may be more likely to document rioter brutality and other criminal offenses (such as looting). Civil unrest of the type that one associates with Detroit or Watts in 1967 may be less likely to degenerate into assaults, looting, and property destruction when video of such offenses becomes evidence in courts of law.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.