Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "All US Cities Should Ban Facial Recognition Software Like Somerville Did" video.

  1. Well, Styx is fighting the tide...and when you fight the tide, guess who wins. Privacy preserves one from damages (you could consider "embarrassment" to be damage), but also exposes one to the dangers of misunderstanding. Total surveillance can work if it's used to exact justice in real-time: your friend calls you a "chronic masturbator" and is fined on the spot 3 seconds later. Enforced civility! Maybe your friend wants to whack you in the head with an iron pipe. As soon as he initiates the action, the little nano-implant everybody had injected at birth allows the "watchers" to trigger the release of a paralyzing chemical that immediately stops your friend in his tracks--and calls for an ambulance...to who knows where...But for regular people it would be great! You feel like walking down the street completely naked? No problem, except for anyone who microaggresses you. hahaha There's no way this genie's going back in the bottle! You can forget any such fantasies and save yourself a lot of aggravation. Even when you think it's gone, it won't be!...it won't be...
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