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If it happens, it will be enforced by private institutions, not public ones. Like your credit score. Your bank and your insurance company and businesses offe
by fallingfrog 4y ago
If it happens, it will be enforced by private institutions, not public ones. Like your credit score. Your bank and your insurance company and businesses offering services and your employer will know what you’re saying and doing and they’ll offer special status to those who they deem low risk, and then everyone who doesn’t qualify will just not be eligible for services or will have to pay a much higher price. It’s a plausible but not inevitable future. But here in the west where everything is getting privatized anyway, it won’t be the government, it will be the quasi government of the insurance and financial sector and maybe also your employer that does it.
- fallingfrog 4y agoAs a corollary, if you want to guess what kinds of speech they would target, it will be speech that in the aggregate costs them money: pro union speech, anti business speech especially about bad corporate behavior, speech urging actions against power structures, and to the extent that it causes a PR issue, certain kinds of hate speech, regarding groups that have enough people sympathetic to them to have it be a problem. Basically power only cares about speech that impacts power. That would be my guess.
- hotpotamus 4y agoI imagine a sufficiently advanced AI that could read every comment you've ever written on any anonymous (or nonymous) account and correlate any slipups that give away your identity or writing styles to create a total summation of everything you've ever produced online and then cast judgement on you. God may or may not have created us, but we seem to be in the process of creating him.