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Comment · 1 year ago
Very unmeritocratic society if you can just win by inheriting half of 20 billion dollars.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would love it if there were a part of the internet where a) one person = one account and non-person accounts were somehow labeled. Kind of how south korea does it. But you know, better.

And b) i could block that one person on each platform with one click on all my accounts, including screenshots of their posts.

In real life i know the person talking to me is a unique individual and not one of several duplicate persons bc of physical limitations.

Wishful thinking: we are reaching that point where AI could solve this instead of AI just making the issue worse.

Comment · 1 year ago
We could call it a cost cutting measure to save the taxpayer billions in unnecessary legal fees and settlements.
Comment · 1 year ago
> How will he "try that"? He hasn't done anything illegal and, if he does, his own staff and the courts will prevent him from doing it.

Are we talking about convicted felon donald trump or some other guy?

Comment · 2 years ago
I think, at one point in time, it was also completely legal to break into computer networks because there were no laws against it.
Comment · 2 years ago
I appreciate the technical achievements here. However, I wonder how long before it’s standard practice to track all peoples movement, not just those suspected of a crime. I know of at least one YouTube channel that is always recording all traffic camera streams in Washington so there must be some State entities doing the same. Back in 2020 there was a twitch channel that would play a 9x9 grid of all the livestream footage from the George Floyd protests. I’m sure an archive of that exists somewhere on a LE server.
Comment · 2 years ago
Politicians all across the globe know and utilize this concept
Comment · 2 years ago
Because we are “free” to “choose” who we do business with. Nevermind that many essential services are run by legal cartels.

And Tmobile has more lobbyists than you do. But you, an individual, are also “free” to lobby the government as much as you wish.

Thusly, the system is fair and balanced on paper.

Comment · 2 years ago
I mean from the point of view of McDonald’s I mean Disney no no the tobacco companies, it was probably idea of the year.
Comment · 2 years ago
You sound like a stalin era communist. The secret police are spying on you for your own good!
Comment · 2 years ago
I wonder how many entities knew about this before today
Comment · 2 years ago
This sounds like HSBC’s relationship with drug cartels
Comment · 2 years ago
I can think of at least one industry where the price of failure is almost always borne by the users and not the companies. Very closely integrated with tech as well.

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