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I find this pretty scary. In all dictatorships of the past and present there were ways for people to do things the dictatorships didn’t know. They could meet
by maxxxxx 7y ago
I find this pretty scary. In all dictatorships of the past and present there were ways for people to do things the dictatorships didn’t know. They could meet and communicate with each other. Soon it may be possible to know where any person is at any moment and run analytics that monitors connections between people in real time. In the past they could only monitor a very limited group of people because it was expensive. Add to that robot cops that can act on this immediately then maybe the next Nazis, Stalin or North Korea can maintain their power by sheer force for a very long time. Maybe people will find ways around that as they often have done In the past but maybe not. Definitely very scary.
- devoply 7y agoOur legal systems in all our countries are totalitarian like literally. The reason that very few people come in contact with them is libertarian philosophy. In that if nobody witnesses something happen or is not bothered by it then nobody gets in trouble. When you add continuous surveillance to everything then many more people that otherwise would've gone unnoticed will come in contact with the legal system and be effected by it.
- fwsgonzo 7y agoNot to mention that anyone is guilty of plenty of crimes at any point in time. You just have to decide to "get" someone, and they will be taken away. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/12/forty-five-things-i-learned-in-the-gulag/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/12/forty-five-th... Just read number 37 if you're having problems accepting that the law will be applied unevenly.
- sampleinajar 7y agoAdd in deepfake and you get a recipe for a nightmare.