I personally find the censorship implications (and the business models they allow) far more worrying than the surveillance implications. It will soon be possib

I personally find the censorship implications (and the business models they allow) far more worrying than the surveillance implications. It will soon be possible to create a dating app where chatting is free, but figuring out a place to meet or exchanging contact details requires you to pay up, in a way that 99% of people won't know how to bypass, especially if repeated bypassing attempts result in a ban. Same goes for apps like Airbnb or eBay, which will be able to prevent people from using them as listing sites and conducting their transactions off-platform to avoid fees. The social media implications are even more worrying, it will be possible to check every post, comment, message, photo or video and immediately delist it if it promotes certain views (like the lab leak theory), no matter how indirect these mentions are. Parental control software will have a field day with this, basically redefining helicopter parenting.