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No object ever in society is "inherently authoritarian". Authoritarianism is a behavior of a country's leaders, not a label on some unwanted technology. E.g.
by bb88 8y ago
No object ever in society is "inherently authoritarian".
Authoritarianism is a behavior of a country's leaders, not a label on some unwanted technology.
E.g. Sniper rifles are not authoritarian in an of themselves. The use of sniper rifles to snuff out dissent is.
And that's why this debate is dishonest. Because if you support facial recognition software for the police as another tool for the good guys, you get smeared as supporting authoritarianism.
When in fact, if you deeply wanted to remove authoritarian behaviors, you would add more checks and balances to the system to prevent unchecked behavior from our leaders.
The founding father's knew that and designed the constitution that way.
- jstanley 8y agoI agree that the existence of the software is benign. I said the use of it is authoritarian. And sure, I didn't make it explicit, so let me make it explicit now: the use of the software to identify real people is authoritarian. If you use it to classify random cat pictures then that's obviously not authoritarian.
- bb88 8y agoFirst, thanks for responding. But saying two things are equivalent doesn't make it so. My phone tags people in them. Are you saying that is authoritarian? Because to me, it seems like a really nice tool to tag people in photos.