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While we were all watching CCP implement their social credit system, big tech gave us one while our gaze was elsewhere. These algorithmic systems can pretty quickly make you an unperson in our society.



Theoretically one is implemented by state's request and the other happens while the state is busy looking away. Yay for freedom but when you're at the receiving end of the digital stick, is the difference really significant?


It stings less when an unaccountable group of technocrats ruin your life for some reason apparently.




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