turnkey tyranny
An institutional, legal, and technical infrastructure — particularly mass…An institutional, legal, and technical infrastructure — particularly mass surveillance, data collection, and centralized state power — that is built up to a point where it is likely to be abused for authoritarian ends, or could be activated by any government so inclined with little additional effort.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)An institutional, legal, and technical infrastructure — particularly mass surveillance, data collection, and centralized state power — that is built up to a point where it is likely to be abused for authoritarian ends, or could be activated by any government so inclined with little additional effort.
Civil-liberties advocates warned that the expanding surveillance apparatus had created turnkey tyranny.
Origin
From turnkey + tyranny.From turnkey + tyranny.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable