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Good. A model for the rest of the country. The idea that anyone should be allowed to track the movement of everyone in a city is incredibly dystopian. No one n
by Pfhreak 6y ago
Good. A model for the rest of the country.
The idea that anyone should be allowed to track the movement of everyone in a city is incredibly dystopian. No one needs the power to automate tracking people, and the potential for abuse is overwhelmingly high.
- matthewfelgate 6y agoLuddite.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoThough funny, it doesn’t really move the conversation forward.
- klyrs 6y agoThere's a difference between being anti-technology and being anti-one-specific-application-of-a-technology. Analogously, saying "hey maybe cops shouldn't shoot citizens to death" is not a fundamentally anti-gun stance. For example, the Black Panther Party famously had patrols, armed with long guns, who directly challenged police brutality.
- Pfhreak 6y agoYeah, funny, I've been in the tech industry for a decade working on some of the highest scale systems there are. But yeah, Luddite, lol. Fun fact, Luddites were not anti technology. They destroyed machines because they were worried (correctly) that capitalists would race to the bottom in pay, firing all the people who were trained in producing textiles.
- klyrs 6y agoI'm with you on the originalist use of Luddite as a labor movement... but I've generally come to accept that, like "literally", demanding precision here is a lost battle.