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by vouaobrasil 564 days ago
The upside to this tool is that it can bring greater informational efficiency to governments. But I think we should be careful, because this tool could also be used to make government overreach more effective. In the future, I'd imagine someone using this tool to incorporate greater analysis so that governments could type "show me any evidence of insurrection against our new draconian policy".

To be honest, maximal informational efficiency for governments is not a one-sided coin, and I think we ought to be a little more careful because this one-sided view of this as a tool to help with the good stuff ignores the danger of using it to silence potential movements against the government should it become primarily the bodyguard of the big corporation -- which frankly, is not far from the truth today.

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it's not targeting govts though, but downstream users of policy