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Comment by lazide

5 months ago

It’s a way to fully automate a Brazil scenario. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)]

Since at least in that scenario, there were humans in the Bureaucracy that could (but didn’t particularly) feel bad.

In this scenario, no humans need to be directly involved, which allows the scope and scale to be even more Dystopian.

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noisy_boy  5 months ago

Of all the various useless laws that keep getting enacted, one that guarantees that every company needs to have a phone number, manned by actual human(s) with organic intelligence, advertised prominently on their products/advertisements, never gets passed.

  • lazide  5 months ago

    Because that would cost them money, instead of forcing people to find their own workarounds (or die).

    Many parts of gov’t aren’t far off, and those are the really scary ones.

  • immibis  5 months ago

    Germany has this law for commercial websites. Mostly it makes people afraid to have websites.