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I'd argue it is, and it should be so even in the US. Even if Netflix's intentions had been perfectly benign - and even if they didn't specifically target this
by xg15 3y ago
I'd argue it is, and it should be so even in the US.
Even if Netflix's intentions had been perfectly benign - and even if they didn't specifically target this category but only did so emergently through some unsupervised algorithm - they now have a way to find out for all of their customers whether they are closetted gay.
Imagine someone like Trump or Desantis or even worse coming to power. People like those will certainly find such databases helpful, and they won't care at all whether the data is ostensibly about viewing preferences or directly about sexual orientation.
- Nursie 3y agoYeah I absolutely agree that it’s chilling what could be done with that information and it won’t matter to such people whether it’s accurate. I mentioned Uganda because I listened to a story earlier in the week about a man being thrown out of his mother’s home because she saw his Tik-Tok feed and it was full of very openly gay content. So we don’t necessarily have to imagine it - in some places this is already happening.
- dangles 3y agoNo need for a counterfactual, how do you think Trump used this data when he came to power?
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoNo idea, what did he do?