i don't know why, or even how, i hadn't thought of this before... but it feels painfully obvious now now all the things that didn't make sense have snapped into a hideous, horrifying clarity all the manufactured consent and the blatant violation of democracy in places that explicitly voted against this utter horseshit being overruled by court orders... this paired with the mandatory online identification laws so as to create an even more resolved digital footprint for every user of the internet on earth ... with all these data centers they might actually **have** the compute and storage capacity to track all eight billion of us. not that they even *need* to. just the loudest, most troublesome 'activist' citizens...