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With constant encroachments on our liberty and privacy for security and persistent prosecutorial misconduct, concerns about a coming police state are quite valid. However, the greater growing threat is the tech state because it’s incremental, stealthy, and it’s already here! High tech has produced many wonderful conveniences and innovations, but totally dominated by a few monopolies high tech has garnered almost unlimited power to place whatever limits it likes on its customers.

Amazon, Google, and Facebook have become so dominant in their spheres they are virtually insusceptible to a...