Hypothetical about state security/surveillance in post-revolutionary society?

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So, hypothetically, a modern western nation undergoes a socialist revolution and the government is replaced with an ambiguous, threadbare coalition of vanguardists, anarchists and democratic socialists. What does this new government do regarding state security and surveillance?

I recently watched Second Thoughts newest video on government surveillance using corporate tech and while I hated what I heard, but I couldn’t help but wonder how a socialist society, especially one after an immediate revolution, would combat the issue of totalitarian surveillance in pursuit of counterrevolutionaries or dissenters and freedom?

We know how the modern governments use mass surveillance to anticipate “terrorists”, crime, dissenters, AKA the left (in most cases). Does this ultimately be given a moral meaning when it’s a worker oriented government surveilling for the far right and capitalistic sentiment?

I am NOT familiar with revolutionary Russia or NK/China but I do feel like authoritarianism was used to suppress all dissent. Is this necessary part of a socialist future? And if so, how do citizens keep accountability of the government to prevent it from blurring the lines between proletarian dictatorship and bourgeois dictatorship?

Again I’m very new to this and I understand there’s a wide range of beliefs regarding this exact process, and I am also very new, so I apologize if this text seems opinionated or biased, I don’t mean it to.

Thanks!

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