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actually I posted here on YNews last year about San Diego-based company that was creating "fence" zones for emergency response with a geo-web site to coordinate
by mistrial9 4y ago
actually I posted here on YNews last year about San Diego-based company that was creating "fence" zones for emergency response with a geo-web site to coordinate them. Second an anecdote where a California Highway Patrol fire response officer was shown abruptly and dismissively telling the mayor of a small town that the restrictions on access "could last a year."
That YNews post was met with multiple "so what" and "they make money" kinds of responses, without any apparent alarm at the technology creep.
Perhaps you have heard of a "ratchet" effect, where one law plus one technology plus later, one more law, creates a non-reversible and serious change to the social contract for law enforcement?
- vegetablepotpie 4y agoI have not heard of the “ratchet effect”. Some research on ddg showed me the Collingridge dilemma, but that’s different because it’s about regulation of technology and not law enforcement adoption of tech. Can you point to an example?
- mistrial9 4y agolacking something specific to point to, I will hand-wave by saying that there are at least three different framework "lenses" to add context to these changes.. perhaps one is the "evolutionary spiral" technology-optimist view, like Kevin Kelly at WIRED; two is the "social stability" thinking apparently in that Collinridge book and others; third is the one I refer to, which is brute force politics and law over time.. probably a crude reference to that is "48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene or some historical writing..