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Thoughtcrime is not illegal yet, so at least we still have the solitude and sanctity of our own minds.

umvi 5y ago
Well hopefully our phones will be able to penetrate our minds and detect when we are spreading misinformation and secretly take action to save us from ourselves. After all, our phone is the closest device to our own thoughts since it can detect and parse everything we read and search for. Apple recently developed a feature for its phones to detect when its users are depressed - just one more baby step and phones could detect when its users are misinformed. And then the phone could do subtle things to manipulate the user into being less misinformed, for example by serving pro-vaccination links when the user searched for anti-vax articles. In this way we will achieve a utopia where everyone is informed and united in thought and purpose.
Joker_vD 5y ago
Bloomberg recently published an article on the proposed UK and EU laws that would force Facebook not to merely delete, but completely prevent "wrong" content from even appearing in the feeds. So we're getting there: people undoubtedly would start inventing euphemisms and loopholes to circumvent such policies, and the logical end would be adopting a whitelist approach, sorry, an allowlist approach of what kind of content is allowed to be published.
- hagbard_c 5y ago
  A form of Newspeak [1] has already started to grow in the form of people talking around the subjects mentioned in the Youtube blocklist and other 'forbidden' subjects. Some people use descriptive terms to indicate the forbidden subjects, others use non-verbal gestures, others again state emphatically they would never ever dare to claim that ... (insert the thing they actually want to claim) ... , often with a call to the censor to please not delete their account. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

umvi 5y ago

Well hopefully our phones will be able to penetrate our minds and detect when we are spreading misinformation and secretly take action to save us from ourselves. After all, our phone is the closest device to our own thoughts since it can detect and parse everything we read and search for. Apple recently developed a feature for its phones to detect when its users are depressed - just one more baby step and phones could detect when its users are misinformed. And then the phone could do subtle things to manipulate the user into being less misinformed, for example by serving pro-vaccination links when the user searched for anti-vax articles. In this way we will achieve a utopia where everyone is informed and united in thought and purpose.

Joker_vD 5y ago

Bloomberg recently published an article on the proposed UK and EU laws that would force Facebook not to merely delete, but completely prevent "wrong" content from even appearing in the feeds. So we're getting there: people undoubtedly would start inventing euphemisms and loopholes to circumvent such policies, and the logical end would be adopting a whitelist approach, sorry, an allowlist approach of what kind of content is allowed to be published.

hagbard_c 5y ago
A form of Newspeak [1] has already started to grow in the form of people talking around the subjects mentioned in the Youtube blocklist and other 'forbidden' subjects. Some people use descriptive terms to indicate the forbidden subjects, others use non-verbal gestures, others again state emphatically they would never ever dare to claim that ... (insert the thing they actually want to claim) ... , often with a call to the censor to please not delete their account. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak