[rokkitmensch]

I'm pretty sure we proletariat lost on all fronts. I advocate we give up on change via text official routes (which tends to absorb as much energy as anyone can throw at the project while producing epsilon results, barring the odd tournament-market victor [Britney Spears, Neil deGrasse Tyson for examples]), and teach our children and each other the importance of undermining and subverting the dominant control structures at every turn.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

They thought of that. But with the current tech, the solution is a matter of implementing a social credit (or similar) system. Western nations will have this eventually, its inevitable. With it in place, you can achieve fine grain continuous compliance of any behavior. Scary from the populace pov, but an absolute miracle from the pov of the powerful.

[rokkitmensch]

One of the few things I've taken away from Doctorow's work is the notion of Whuffie from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

I noodled on a brief implementation on the Ethereum Blockchain, with a high level design of "anyone can issue and revoke to/from anyone else, and aggregate scoring is implemented by users", where my personal scoring system would have some kind of 3rd degree WoT evaluation, and normalize everyone's point-scores against the total quantity given by each of their point-givers".

Ridiculously heavy and expensive to implement on Ethereum, but I'm sure some other backing storage could handle the weight and transaction volume.

Probably worth writing up a whitepaper, as the cryptoderps say.