Don’t Start Nothing—Won’t be Nothing

Self ^ | 2018 | Steve James Newton and Gayle Rae

[Steve Newton]

This letter has been sent to the Washington Post. We thought our FReeper friends might like to see it.

[Big Red Badger]

All Good Men,

[Steve Newton]

Aye. And I’m afraid we are going to need all the good men and women we can find.

[Gayle Rae]

I agree with you, Badger. Praying there ARE more than just a few of them....

[arthurus]

They won't kick in millions of doors to take our guns. Google already has the answer. It is being test run in China and is called Social Credit. There it involves putting out 200 million cameras all over the country and wiring everything electric into the internet-mostly it already is- and all combined with facial recognition software. We will be under surveillance 99.999 percent of the time and our every action and purchase will add to or detract from our social credit scores. As one's score goes down one will lose the ability to get a taxi or buy gas or airplane tickets and perhaps one's prices at the grocery will have surcharges added. Once that is all in place and it will be- then when our scores are so low we can barely live they will tell us how many points we can raise our scores when we turn in a gun and they already know who has probably 90 percent of the legally owned guns.

And it is not like we can put a gun to the head of the guy who makes the scores because the guy is an algorithm. China has already begun this. Google and Apple, Chinese companies now, provide the software and their executives speak openly about implementing it here. China will own us then.

[DuncanWaring]

It means that Rudyard Kipling foretold the next century from the perch of 1919, a year after the end of The Great War.

[School of Rational Thought]

Flake certainly is without a spine or morals.

[Celtic Conservative]

Actually, modern historians have upped the figure to 750,000. But I get your point.

CC

[Steve Newton]

Wow.

That high? Sigh. Sad. Hope it doesn’t come to that again