I just could not disagree more. The story is great because she presents the villain as a system we all participate and are slave to. The creation of a police state does not arise from unreasonable fears but unreasonable reactions.
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YASSS. debate! I find it odd when something that could be done manually suddenly takes on a ‘bad guy’ tone when done with consumer tech. If someone saw a neighbor stealing a package or had a neihboorhood watch report it, i doubt there’d be a critique.
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Sure. There also wouldn't be a debate about our democratic process if someone paid to erect one billboard with a blatantly false campaign ad on it, but you put that on a social network that can target everything, and it changes.
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In journalism, theres a low burden of proof to attack powerful folks. Somehow over the last few years, this burden got extended to all consumer tech and tech workers. I find it hostile towards folks who should be treated as our fellow citizens. It makes me sad
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We could talk about this in a less public context since i'm sure we're annoying people.
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All very thinky stuff. This probably not productive, but your complaints about journos using examples of regular people in a law enforcement story could be very easily applied to people who have been *accused* of calling out individual NIMBYs in stories about development.
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I'm not sure how we talk about local government, which is the most important policy setter for foundational inequality issues like education, law enforcement and housing, without citing what the citizenry is doing and what the consequences for others are.
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I think it's possible to do this and raise impt questions about what community/corporate actions mean for racial/ economic equity w/o succumbing to a reductive "you're racist" line of reporting, and in fact think the story we are talking about is a sterling example of just that.
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dancing around the barnyard here, but the intersection of private property, policing and race goes back into the very founding of this country and keeps recurring every generation in new ways....
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