[–] 111MrGuy111 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Communism is an open-loop system requiring either theft of resources or state murder -- both of which seek to balance the promises to their people. It will however always eat itself by preventing scrutiny required to solve problems (in favor of dogma), until nobody can say anything while technological progress has paused for generations.

One merely needs to read a history book to know this (while you still can).

[–] SuperToes845 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Relatedly, anyone remember the story about Facebook hiring six Chinese nationals to help them develop their censorship algorithms?

https://techstartups.com/2020/10/20/facebook-hired-six-chinese-nationals-hate-speech-engineering-team-censor-american-citizens-former-facebook-insider-says/

It's because the Chinese are the best at censorship and social programming and US companies (and the government) are more than happy to learn from them!

[–] mememeyou 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Black mirror - nose dive episode. Technocracy hell. We may have to go underground, subvert & destroy it, use crypto, hacking, disguises/tricks to break facial recognition & trackers

[–] I-Am ago 

The fatal flaw with these types of systems is one can seek out those with low scores, and then they know who to organize with