https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
I have noticed my behaviour being affected for several years now.
Just look at China. Subdued is the word.
Funnily enough:
My mom told me she’d block me if I sent the xijinping jokes to her when she visited china.
Anyways, even after they returned I got in an argument with my brother so i send anti-xi stuff to the family Wechat group to troll them and my brother left the group and blocked me. Last I heard he was searching for women in China to marry so thats probably why, he doesnt wanna lose the 1.4 billion population market of potential “marriage candidates”. (seriously he could just marry a Taiwanese, since he’s obsessed with traditional chinese characters)
My wechat account is still active btw, I think diasporas get more leeway vs a local Chinese.
Lolol
YOLO
Edit: For context the argument was that he was keep saying annoying shit so I told him to shut up. And he pulled out the “freedom of speech card” (which doesnt even apply here since this is him being annoying and triggering my anxiety, effectively harassment, nothing to do with government trampling rights), so I responded by saying to most sterotypically “Pro America” rant on wechat, so then my brother blocked me. Oh I thought he loved free speech, why be so scared of CCP and block me?
It’s already changing lives. I did some stupid shit in my teens, I would hate if it was recorded. Teens now have that knowledge that anything can be recorded and shared easily with the world.
I don’t think they’ll do any of the dumb stuff I did at parties.
when underage i did ONE video call with an adult, to think that might be somewhere out there… man that’s funny
There is an increasing demand for tech-free spaces.
I envision that we will collectively develop increasingly stringent etiquette regarding when it is appropriate to use (or even carry) communications tech. E.g. venues with a phone locker at the entrance. Also simply shunning public use.It could be a great equalizer if everyone was just as under the microscope as everybody else. The power-tripping types will never allow that, however.
look at the UK, CHINA. thats why flock, AXON, motorola is hastily trying to deploy AI cameras, so by then it will be next to impossible to take them all down.
Internet Archive folks just did a podcast episode about this: Mass Surveillance and the Loss of Fun. Basically everyone is on stage putting on an act all the time.
Thank you so much, I’ve been looking for frameworks on what tf to do about it, like how to live my life now, I’ve been depressed for a bit so I havent left the house much in the last few years and now that this update hit the server i dont know what the best moves are, its a totally novel situation for me, i read the panopticon but not much more than that, i literally dont know how life will turn out now
Think carefully before you answer. They are watching.
It affects my associations in that I don’t use some of the applications and platforms they, the larger society, use to interact with each other and also that I am reluctant to even contact people at all if they have spyware or LLMs in their phones, cars, computers, etc.
As for if it will affect the way in which people already under heavy surveillance interact with each other, I expect psyops to be extremely effective currently but clearly not absolute as demonstrated by fascists and China losing the US election.
What is a content algorithm if not surveilling and studying civilians to push chosen content in front of them and control how they act, what they buy, where they travel, etc.
Double Think
