Comment by artisinal
7 hours ago
Perhaps in the future cars will not only record your face but also listen in for hate speech. Most cars have SOS and GPS modules so calling the police if someone in the car shouts a slur is just connecting some code together.
Why do you think this is only going to be in Europe? This will be the global norm modulo some astroid hitting earth or civilizational crash.
The trajectory is crystal clear: access to information (AI), control over personal finance (CBDC), privacy of personal communications (handful of big tech MITM in everything), metered social interactions (today China, tomorrow the world over).
Until the sun grows in a final blaze of glory and burns all Qurans at the same time for 100 million years?
Fortunately the US has not only freedom of speech in the constitution but also tens of millions of armed civilians that place a hard limit on how much control the government can have over people's speech. The only reason the Chinese government can achieve such control over speech is because it can disappear anyone who speaks against it.
It doesn't even need guns; Nepalese youth managed to stop social media censorship there just by going to the political capital and threatening to beat the MPs to death.
America may have tens of millions of armed civilians, but I'm not convinced that so many of them care about freedom of speech, particularly when it comes to people who they disagree with.
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From the Chinese constitution:
Article 35 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration.
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Has the armed civilian population done anything to protect constitutional rights? Last time a section of them mobilized, it was to overthrow a rightfully elected government.
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You say that like it’s a bad fnord
i am interested in hearing why you think it is not god awful
I mean, I get that these things are typically matters of opinion, but if you value things like freedom and privacy, these things are objectively bad.
I think this should go one step further. If you don't praise the magnificence of your local EU politicians then your car's breaks will stop working and an electric shot will be administered to everyone presently in the car. That will satisfy EU-rocrats.
The coming revolution will be well deserved I think.
Man, the paranoid ramblings every time the EU gets mentioned here really are something else...
Car could also become judge and executioner. Swift justice is just one curve away
Drive you straight to prison
It is cheaper for the government to just lock the car doors for the length of your sentence. Saves them space in prison. You are allowed to use the McDrive twice a day. The windows will drop 8 centimeters, enough for a Big Mac.
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America is leading the way on that one:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/two-teens-learn-the-har...
The car’s computer voice: John Spartan you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality code!
This is called eCall, a fairly intrusive system built into even some motorcycles.
Danger, danger. Cannabis detected in the vehicle.
Well, it is some kind of social control. People who conform, have more rights than those who reject fascism.