Metafilter picked up my thing about retooling existing location tracking into a tool for the CDC. I have to say the caliber of the discussion is pretty disappointing.https://www.metafilter.com/186216/Idlewords-What-we-need-is-a-massive-surveillance-program …
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Argument I totally respect: universal location tracking threatens our freedom as a people. We must not trade that for safety Argument I respect not so much: universal location tracking is fine as long as it's being used to target Buttigieg ads or entice me to eat at Red Lobster
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They're good memes bront
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I take no issue with this position, but my one concern is that it exists uncomfortably adjacent to “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.”
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It does! The government has no business knowing where you sit. My gripe here is really that people are not thinking through the machinery of this stuff in the real world, or the way governments, states and corporate interests really work
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