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Qatar, Belgium's Vertonghen says players being "controlled" at World Cup (www.mirror.co.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by ailiphilia@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"We are being controlled. I don’t like making political statements. We are here to play football, and if we can’t even do that because we are making a statement and just saying normal things, like ‘no to discrimination’ or ‘no to racism’, and you cannot say that, then hey, then what?”

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[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago

I didn't understand it as against me, I just didn't understand :-). All fine. The super rich footballer appears to feel understandably uneasy given that he is "controlled" as he says. The point is that he and his peers could say 'no' to this exactly because they are "super rich", but they literally play to their sponsors in an industry that seems to have lost any human dignity.

Unfortunately his sentiment could be a foretaste of a society which we may be heading into. How will ( or already do?) citizens feel in a world of ubiquitous CCTVs and client-side scanning technologies where everything you do and say is constantly monitored and logged? What does this mean for the freedom of opinion and other human rights we in the so-called "western world" are so proud of?