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The same shape no.

But big invasive entities have always existed. In france, coal mines almost owned the lifz of their worker : when they shop, where they slept, etc. News were only on a few newspapers or tv channels linked to the same top people, one source of info to tell you what to think, do and to buy.

The government has always collected a lot of infos to.

Before that, the church did. They polished the global personnal data collection but called it confession. They mastered the ad, it was for all people to see on sunday. Very useful for population control and black mail.

So unless people learn to see the red flags and react, the next wolf will it the sheeps like always.



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