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Don't worry. Sooner or later this stuff will be mandatory and you'll be obligated to get your state-issued terminal. Social credits will do, if you have no mone
by ZoomZoomZoom 1mo ago
Don't worry. Sooner or later this stuff will be mandatory and you'll be obligated to get your state-issued terminal. Social credits will do, if you have no money.
For the skeptical ones: Somewhere people are already being cut off from state and financial institutions without proprietary software with bundled security certificates, applications are bound to collect data on the environment they are used in (other apps) and organizations deliberately limit access to their services or cripple them without their applications (can't do things from a generic web-browser).
- zahlman 1mo ago> For the skeptical ones The words after this point make you less convincing, not more, as they only serve to confirm the egregious slippery slope of your reasoning.
- ZoomZoomZoom 1mo agoDo you call any negative prognosis based on extrapolation of an observable downward trend a slippery slope?
- zahlman 1mo agoYour observations don't show a trend and your extrapolation is not sound.
- ZoomZoomZoom 1mo agoI'm living it. Good for you if you're not. My point was to make a joke about state-issued phones but also make sure it doesn't read as an absurd, easily dismissible claim, because it's a real possibility.
- techteach00 1mo agoYes and if it's true it's usually downvoted or flagged on HN