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  • sunbytes@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I for one welcome… blah blah

    Yeah this is scary and honestly why I’m super careful what I put online. Well, mostly.

    There are professional social media checkers who will find your hidden/locked social media (and Reddit etc).

    They get hired by recruitment agencies or companies who are hiring.

    And on the surface it could be to check no one is a secret nazi/chauvanist etc

    But I bet there’s secondary data about political leanings or how “appropriate” your friends are.

    Or if you’re willing to be a part of the old boy’s club (coke and strippers is fine for execs, but you can’t have a nephew who is in a labor union etc).

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      1 year ago

      Yep. The CCP’s social credit system was always going to be the end game of surveillance capitalism. It will be spearheaded by conservatives because they’re the most religious, authoritarian, and have an innate desire to restrict social progress and enforce their views on everyone else.

      The best part is they’ll claim it’s completely different and represents Freedom™️ because it’ll be established by capitalism… Even though it’s functionally identical, the CCP are more capitalist than communist, and western conservatives jizz their pants at the level of power and control the CCP have over the Chinese people.