What price political correctness?

Or if the purpose is to snoop out and keep track of those who might diagree with government policy? Or at least to put a chill in the activiites of such people?

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"These monkeys are at once the ugliest and the most beautiful creatures on the planet./ And the monkeys don't want to be monkeys; they want to be something else./ But they're not."
-- Ernie Cline