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That's where the next billion Twitter and Facebook users will come from: forced participation tied to government services and benefits. You can easily imagine
by TAForObvReasons 9y ago
That's where the next billion Twitter and Facebook users will come from: forced participation tied to government services and benefits. You can easily imagine a dystopia where a FB account is required to collect Social Security or Medicare benefits.
- dorfsmay 9y agoAnd alt user ids tuned specifically for this purpose!
- wanderer2323 9y agoMy pet dystopian vision was always basic income associated with a government-tied-in Alternative Reality game, with mandatory in-game outside-world activities to collect points that can be traded in for bonus BI or discounts for everything purchased with your BI card or BI card cashback limits, etc. With China developing Social Credit and US government interest in social media data, the "in-game outside-world activities" might as well be bypassed. Have a 'good' Facebook history, or else.