In Soviet Russia: Blog Reads YOU!

Oh boy! It’s time for some jokes! In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, party can always find you! In America, you listen to man on radio. In Soviet Russia, man on radio listen to you! In America, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches you! In soviet Russia everybody spies on you!

Huh? That last one wasn’t a joke. The writer of this article explains how in 1991 when she was living in Prague she was being spied on by her neighbors. Can you just imagine? Being spied on constantly by your neighbors? Having them watch your every move, turning you into a scared, guarded, bitter person?
Yikes! :’(

Oh wait, we’re already being watched. All of the phone taps, emails being read, texts being intercepted and cameras watching you.

Doesn’t it kind of bother you how any mall you walk in, there are cameras WATCHING you? You end up feeling almost criminalized. I mean, you’re innocent. Your records are clean, and you didn’t even get detention in high school! How is it that we’re almost always being watched and stalked? Aren’t we supposed to be trusted? Aren’t all people innocent until proven guilty? I guess this isn’t the case anymore…

A watched group of people creates a group of unfeeling, unintelligent, scared populace. Ideas can’t be freely exchanged for fear of punishments. People are not allowed to be themselves! Dum dum dum!

Living in a country with freedom such as western European countries and North America should be something to thank the genetic lottery. Hopefully more laws are made to protect privacy and make sure the future doesn’t turn out to be like 1984.