• MwalimuOPM
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    13 years ago

    100% agree. Whenever a broker like Google slots themselves in social relations, they almost always gain power to change social reality by being dishonest translators. I am worried by how much everyday banal activities are mediated by centralized IDs. Paying for a cup of coffee using your phone? Papers, Please. Opening your house with that shiny iPhone, ID, please. We have increased instances where we need an ID while also reducing ID options to the surveillance monopolies.

    • @Wilty@baraza.africa
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      13 years ago

      Yup the digital dark age is becoming an abyss, hopefully the continued fall of the US doesn’t take us all down… And on that cheery note :)