Opinion: Are universities morphing into Orwellian states?

[Razer]

On 1/28/20 7:17 PM, jim bell wrote:
> https://www.marketwatch.com/story/are-universities-morphing-into-orwellian-states-2020-01-27
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> "Americans are experimenting with methods similar to China’s social credit system. By tracking student movements and regulating faculty to standards of political correctness, they risk socializing young people to the methods of high-tech authoritarian state control.
> Syracuse University, the University of North Carolina and others are installing wi-fi apps and Bluetooth devices to monitor class attendance and visits to libraries, recreation centers, dining halls and potentially every other campus location. These create profiles that faculty and administrators can use to reward good learning habits, flag mental health issues, and impel students to modify personal habits to norms of model student behavior."
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> I wonder if anyone criticized Orwell, saying something like, 'That kind of thing couldn't happen here'.   (whereever 'here' happened to be for that person.)   Probably quite frequently.  
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>                    Jim Bell
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The one thing Orwell NEVER thought of is people would WANT the
surveillance.

All you have to do is go someplace with CCTV surveillance cams. Middle
class people LUV THEM. It makes them feel SAFE from those OTHER people.
Now extrapolate that to middle fucking class narcissistic special
snowflake University students.

Rr


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