authoritarianism

But it's people who give such orders, not "authoritarianism".

At the core both believe in steep authoritarianism.

I fear that this would dispose them toward authoritarianism, which is in fact the first word that comes to mind when I hear about Singapore.

There was a lot of 'authoritarianism', but Germany was 'susceptible' to that.

Just to be clear, there is a such thing as leftist authoritarianism, and that its effects can also be cast as a kind of social conservatism.

Of course, it's one of the features of authoritarianism that the display of authority trumps "tactical mistakes".

How about we try to get to the core issues of this systemic risk of authoritarianism and repression, and look at:Ageism: Why can't younger people vote?

They turned a blind eye to the authoritarianism and centralized power of corporations.

People who know their history understand that authoritarianism and fascism tend to take hold within a relatively short amount of time.

But do say that this has nothing to do with authoritarianism is only focusing on the collection of the data, and not the likelihood that someone in authority will do something with it.

I think the author is trying to play up this strawman of conservative authoritarianism and perhaps reflects her upbringing but I don't think its typical of the American educational experience.

While Zuck bombastically preaches that "privacy is dead" and the rest of us American sheeple fall in line, those in Germany have seen the worst of authoritarianism under the Nazis and the Soviets and have chosen how they want to live.

> using predictive pattern-matching, to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behaviorHere we are again : authoritarianism being rationalized.

These sorts of tendencies can be considered anti-authoritarian, but it is a reactionary anti-authoritarianism, not a healthy, well-reasoned skepticism of prevailing authorities.

It is authoritarianism, which Wikipedia defines as "a form of government as well as a personality and social trait [that] is characterized by absolute or blind obedience to authority, as against individual freedom and related to the expectation of unquestioning obedience.