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		_lqaf on April 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mars Helicopter successfully completed its second ... Instead, you'll have the pleasure of living under what amounts to a ubiquitous-surveillance dictatorship. What, you think surviving under those conditions will work like a Heinlein novel?

SyzygistSix on April 23, 2021 [–]

What makes you think Mars would be like that more than Earth? Mars colonists can simply turn the cameras off when they want.

imtringued on April 24, 2021 | [–]

Your sponsors can also just stop supporting you when they want. An uprising on Mars can be struck down by waiting for everyone on mars to die.

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