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Wear a mask? They have several benefits currently.
by loteck 5y ago
Wear a mask? They have several benefits currently.
- angelzen 5y agoThis is getting better by the year. 'Don't use a browser'. 'Don't carry a cellphone'. 'Wear a mask'. Next: 'Don't go outside'. 'Don't speak'. 'Don't think'.
- skinkestek 5y ago:-) Soon we are back to: Don't write when you can speak, don't speak when you can nod, don't nod when you can wink - or something to that effect.
- puzzledobserver 5y agoTo quote Harlan Ellison: I have no mouth. And I must scream.
- PeterisP 5y agoI recall a "meme" from USSR times that goes something like this: Don't think. If you think, don't speak. If you speak, don't write. If you write, don't sign. If you think, speak, write and sign, don't be surprised.
- angelzen 5y agoI remember Soviet block dissidents being assigned a 24/7 surveillance detail to monitor all their moves and contacts. I remember Soviet dissidents having their correspondence systematically violated by the surveillance apparatus. I remember US funded Radio Free Europe (and British BBC International) being utterly revolted by this state of affairs. Human Rights, Freedom, Democracy, Constitution, Rule of Law, Dignity. Exhibit A on why the Soviets were morally corrupt and had to go to the dustbin of history. Fortunately for the Soviet subjects, in-person surveillance was expensive and didn't scale once the system started to crack and the number of dissidents increased from a handful to thousands. Not so in the tech utopia. We have multiple megacorporations competing in doing every evil trick in the Soviet surveillance textbook, 24/7, at scale. Aaah, progress.
- 29083011397778 5y agoNote that the Soviets, living in a communist society, had the state watch them free of charge. I live in a capitalist society. We purchase our own surveillance here.
- majjam 5y agoI'm pretty sure that doesn't work. They just match you on the upper half of your face: https://www.facewatch.co.uk/2020/05/11/facewatch-launches-facemask-recognition-upgrade/ https://www.facewatch.co.uk/2020/05/11/facewatch-launches-fa...
- alfu 5y agoCan't do this indefinitely in some countries :/ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law)