'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033

Re:'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033 by pessimizer on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @09:54AM (#4385928)

If logging everyone reduces the powerful to those choices, they'll just figure out a way not to have themselves logged. Fast-track lines at the airport? Super PACs? Setting the price point really high for tracking-free versions of services through regulation or selective investment, and leaving the rest to advertising-supported life-quantization vendors for those same services?

Trying to trap people who have leverage in a bind is a losing proposition. You can't trap people in a bind unless you have leverage.

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Re:'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033 by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:12AM (#4386006)

Surely the difference between a functioning democracy and a totalitarian regime is trapping people in a bind (otherwise called one law for all).

I am just saying that yet another threat to functioning democracies is coming round the corner, and weirdly, speeding cameras are the canary in the mine.

Wait till the iris scanner that lets you in the office building also does blood alcohol / cannabis testing.

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Re:'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033 by pessimizer on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @03:31PM (#4387744)

I'm just predicting that the executives will enter through a different door.

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Re:'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033 by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @04:05PM (#4387919)

Not if we can all see them go in.

If some people are "above the law", not that they can afford good lawyers, but that the laws are simply not applied, rather than applied and failed, then that presents a crisis for democracy.

If it is visible that these laws are not applied (and presumably will be as everyone gets caught automatically) then society can either stop being democratic, or enforce those laws.

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