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Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

Adar posted:

The EC version of this is one way it could play out, and yes, that's a dystopian nightmare (though it would never work in the US, and not just for the dystopian hellscape reasons; the simpler reason is that half of the population is automatically against whatever the other half is for and therefore far too divergent from each other for this to make sense.)

It is highly likely that there is already a similar system in place in the United States being run as an FBI/CIA/NSA cooperative. They don't capture as much Internet data as possible and store it in giant datacenters for no reason. It's too easy to hook up a MOSIAC algorithm to look at the incoming data and process it into a generic trustworthiness score and it would be totally legal because until a human looks at the information it isn't a "search".

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