Democratizing surveillance tools can nullify any monopoly control system

Evidence

Millions of people carrying out this basic operation could nullify the control system which those who are behind Watergate and Nixon are attempting to impose. Like all control systems, it depends on maintaining a monopoly position. If anybody can be tape recorder three, then tape recorder three loses power. God must be the God” (Job 20). — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 626

Categorization

• XREF: Evokes the general principle that control systems depend on maintaining a monopoly — parallels ch-to-ch insights about media/computation monopolies elsewhere.
• QUESTION: Is the claim that democratized surveillance weakens authority borne out, or does ubiquitous recording empower the state more than citizens — worth testing today with body cams and phone footage.