Silicon Valley's Social Credit System

[The Cat]

Are you saying that resisting profiling tech or complaining about it is tilting at windmills?

No.

 

[Lark]

If you must reduce me to labels, I prefer Antifa.

Really? I'm going largely on what I know about the UK's SWP/anti-nazi league, anti-racist action and anti-fascist action and they were all largely organised by under cover cops and intelligence agencies.

That was such a long time ago too. I'm surprised that any has choosen to revive that scene at all.

Its much older than the first anti-globalization protests at Genoa, the so called "black block", the right wing "protest warriors" scene and satirical placards (they were supposedly a CIA front, at least the ones in mainland Europe/Germany) all of that.

There were some really good criticisms of AFA in the UK by people who took the idea of "negative campaigning" seriously, define yourself by what you are not, ie "anti-something", you are in a sort of symbiotic relationship with whatever it may be. You cant talk about the one without mentioning the other. So it stays forever in the public consciousness and never gets forgotten about. Pro and Contra movements of all sorts have fallen into that trap before now.

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No.

I like Cervantes.

 

[Lark]

Just in relation to this, has anyone read about the idea of the "Panoptican"?

I visited Kilmainin (spelling) Jail and they mentioned it there as the prison was built in the era of utilitarian thinking and reforms.

It relates to earlier beliefs that the lawful character of earlier epochs can in part be explained by the fact that people felt constantly watched by God, I've read that with the disappearance of that belief and any suspicion or assurance of eventual detection and inevitable punishment/consequences in the afterlife attempts are afoot to conceive of a substitute.

The cameras and life logging is something some how along those lines, for some people a camera is enough to deter offending, its the same as how people used to install phony alarm systems which were just boxes that looked like alarms.

 

[Lark]

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80098473

Link to Netflix studios The Circle.

 

[Honeydew]

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80098473

Link to Netflix studios The Circle.

I'm guessing that it's only available in certain countries and the US isn't one of them cuz when I click that link it says:

Netflix Site Error – Page Not Found

We were unable to find that page.

Please go to the Netflix home page by clicking the button below.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Who are those assholes? They seem like a bunch of one-hit wonders.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Who are those assholes? They seem like a bunch of one-hit wonders.

How dare you talk about The Rolling Stones that way

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

How dare you talk about The Rolling Stones that way

You might say I have no sympathy for the devil.

 

[The Cat]

You might say I have no sympathy for the devil.

Ouch. Not even if they're a person of wealth and taste?

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

You might say I have no sympathy for the devil.

Guess you Won’t Get Fooled Again

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Ouch. Not even if they're a person of wealth and taste?

Maybe if they clothed themselves in feline form.

 

[Honeydew]

Stop derailing my threads with your off-topic trolling.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

 

[anticlimatic]

Stop derailing my threads with your off-topic trolling.

If you must reduce me to labels, I prefer Antifa.

Isnt the entire Antifa MO derailing other people's threads with off topic trolling?

 

[Honeydew]

Isnt the entire Antifa MO derailing other people's threads with off topic trolling?

No, our preferred methods are doxxing and assault.

 

[anticlimatic]

No, our preferred methods are doxxing and assault.

Are you saying you want someone to dox your name and home address so people can come and assault you?

 

[Honeydew]

Are you saying you want someone to dox your name and home address so people can come and assault you?

Are you Antifa too? *high fives*

It's always a pleasure to meet other authoritarians.

 

[Stigmata]

Are you Antifa too? *high fives*

It's always a pleasure to meet other authoritarians.

I was at to keep an eye out and automatically purge any members who attempt to spread pro-union sentiments.

 

[Honeydew]

I was at to keep an eye out and automatically purge any members who attempt to spread pro-union sentiments.

I sense a great potential in you for censorship and authoritarianism. Will you join us on our quest to purge the motherland of fascists?