Public/semipublic/collaborative blocklists are *interesting*. Shunning is a vigorous (and essential) social process, but it's permeable too.
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Lots of stories hinge on people living on the edge of exile and needing to find ways around it. Shunning has to be intensely felt because...
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...there are many ways to subvert it. But a software block is rigid. Like credit ratings and arrest records, it reifies social sanctions.
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@St_Rev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror) … -- basically a sci-fi experiment of what you just described. Worth watching this one, IMO, plenty of story.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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