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I spent months speaking up against this, and I learned something sad: nobody cares. So now the way I think about it is that apathy leads to its own punishment. It’s depressing.
I feel like the average person is too obsessed with convenience and/or not smart enough to draw certain technologies to their logical conclusions. At least you’ll be able to say “yeah I warned you about that 10 years ago”.
I suspect that the ‘apathy’ thing might be more complex than appears on the surface. For example, there might be a certain amount of mental self-protection going on there, even though that probably sounds paradoxical in terms of taking vital action against a future surveillance state.
I understand, but now I am the one protecting my mental health. I won’t be a proxy anymore. Instead I’ll take out my popcorn and watch the collapse.
Yeah kind of me too. Sick of warning everyone who won’t listen.
From the article:
Key findings
- In both democratic and authoritarian contexts, technologies are being deployed in ways that erode, and in some cases effectively dismantle, human rights.
- Technology use risks facilitating or amplifying repressive practices and systems, and becoming an instrument of authoritarian governance.
- Surveillance technologies are being expanded and entrenched with the purpose of exerting control over entire populations and/or specific groups of people such as journalists and human rights defenders.
- The authoritarian use of technology is ultimately having a ‘chilling effect’.
- Some technologies are disproportionately intrusive by design and should not be used.
- Technologies’ use is often incompatible with the rule of law, lack redress and raise mass impunity risks.
- A lack of transparency facilitates the authoritarian use of technologies.
both democratic and authoritarian contexts
ha, how do we tell them?
