I'm genuinely befuddled by this - who creates a social media account, whether Tik-Tok, Facebook, X, or what have you - and expects people NOT to creep on it? That's sort of what it's for, and after all, governments are made up of people, too. Often CREEPY people.
That job of sifting through social media accounts has got to be the most boring job on Earth. Right up there with watching grass grow, just getting paid for it which doesn't generally happen with the grass growing watch.
The most troublesome part of the announcement, to me, is the possibility of moving to a "mobile-only platform". That would effectively ban me from international travel, since I have no mobile, same as lack of a mobile would effective ban me from personhood in the UK now under their new "digital ID" bullshit. Not that it matters that much - my days of international travel are long behind me now. In the matter of the UK, losing my personhood to a computer would be... troubling.
As far as my lack of social media presence as a "red flag" for government types goes, piss on 'em. All they gotta do is stay the hell offa my lawn, and we'll all be ok. I don't give a shit where else they wave their commie "red" flags, just not on MY lawn.
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That job of sifting through social media accounts has got to be the most boring job on Earth. Right up there with watching grass grow, just getting paid for it which doesn't generally happen with the grass growing watch.
The most troublesome part of the announcement, to me, is the possibility of moving to a "mobile-only platform". That would effectively ban me from international travel, since I have no mobile, same as lack of a mobile would effective ban me from personhood in the UK now under their new "digital ID" bullshit. Not that it matters that much - my days of international travel are long behind me now. In the matter of the UK, losing my personhood to a computer would be... troubling.
As far as my lack of social media presence as a "red flag" for government types goes, piss on 'em. All they gotta do is stay the hell offa my lawn, and we'll all be ok. I don't give a shit where else they wave their commie "red" flags, just not on MY lawn.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake