alt Hacker NewsI know that sounds like a horrible violation of individual freedom, but we already treat children and cognitively impaired elderly people that way. Maybe to graduate from childhood to adult-who-can-sign-contracts, have sexual relationships, vote, etc. everyone has to pass a test, and it's retested periodically in case you regress.
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duskdozer • today at 9:35 AM
Children and the elderly are often not treated as human, and it's not a good thing. We should be looking at restricting corporate freedom a little bit before jumping to creating another explicit legal underclass of people.
And yet no barriers or means test for Samsung?
if its harmful in some way to some person the “obvious” solution is to means test the entire population for their competency to vote or have sex? i dont own a samsung fridge, but okay sure. sign me up for some weird battery of invasive tests and write me out of life so Samsung can sell hardware and ads.
maybe samsung can even serve me some personalized ads based on my test results.
everyone in big tech is guided by “CAN we do this?” and never “SHOULD we do this?” and theyre totally unaccountable for all of it.
it doesnt matter who it hurts or how it hurts them. thats why they they do whatever they want.
and if something goes wrong, hey i know! lets just turn the screws even tighter on every man woman and child so Samsung can do whatever it wants.
Id tell you to go hell but it sounds like we’re already all in it.
im sorry if thats rude but it actually was the most polite thing i could come up with.