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The next planned step from caring governments and big tech: mandatory online identification. Sow disinformation to drive crowds, zero in and silence dissidents
by freetanga 2y ago
The next planned step from caring governments and big tech: mandatory online identification.
Sow disinformation to drive crowds, zero in and silence dissidents. 1984 is served.
I just wish that Zuck, Thiel, Sergei, Elon, Jack and all the richest-beyond-any-practical-sense are remembered in history as the ones that did most of the work for this to happen.
Hell, I am no Stallman fan, but I would take his view over the crowd any day.
- arnaudsm 2y agoDo we have other solutions before the internet becomes 100% spam? Private communities?
- ProllyInfamous 2y agoI started writing postcards... address in profile, I respond.
- manuelmoreale 2y agoHell yeah you’ll get one from me! I also send out letters to people. So much fun.
- arnaudsm 2y agoI love it, but mail spam is also a thing. There are literally APIs to mass mail people, some even do fake human writing
- nortonsdad 2y agoProof of work to post content. This is the part where some one says cell phone batteries can't handle it. But I doubt much quality content has ever been directly posted from a mobile device in the first place so I don't think it is much of a problem.
- arnaudsm 2y agoHow will PoW solve this ? Clickfarms in Asia already use entire hangars of mobile phones to fake traffic.
- uwagar 2y ago1984 was already served during the coronavirus pandemic when vaccine mandates were enforced via smartphone apps.