[ineedasername]

I'm not in the CA area, so I honestly have no idea what you mean by saying fascism is rising in SF. Can you explain?

[wu-ikkyu]

Well for starters it's home to the greatest mass surveillance apparatuses in history.

Their big data sets coupled with their algorithms used for sorting and targeting people based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, political beliefs, etc. could be used to enable the most powerful fascist dictator in history.

It wouldn't be the first time it happened:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

[tensor]

I don't like to blame the tools, but Facebook was used in this way by Trump and the Russians. So there is a current day example. That said, claiming these are "mass surveillance" apparatuses is quite some rhetoric. While they can be used for this, they also have many other users. The were not created to be state surveillance and routinely fight state control of their data.

Like all powerful technology, I don't think trying to ban it is the answer. Rather, stronger regulation over how it's allowed to be used.

[wu-ikkyu]

>Like all powerful technology, I don't think trying to ban it is the answer. Rather, stronger regulation over how it's allowed to be used.

So you don't think weapons of mass destruction should be banned?

[tensor]

I don't think nuclear technology should be banned, no. It has uses beyond bombs.

[wu-ikkyu]

Fair enough.

How do you think we should regulate these tools?

Im worried that lawmakers cannot/will not truly appreciate the imminent danger of having billions of the most detailed psychological profiles in history stored in a hackable database until a major attack occurs.