Well this sounds a bit familiar...
Next step is adding a scoring system with penalties for certain behavior and it will be quite similar to the social system that is rolling out in China...
Well this sounds a bit familiar...
Next step is adding a scoring system with penalties for certain behavior and it will be quite similar to the social system that is rolling out in China...
Observers on social media compared the platform’s name “We” to the highly influential 1921 dystopian novel of the same name by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin.
They actually couldn't choose a different name than the novel that was written specifically about this very dystopian subject? Did they use it as inspiration? Because that seems more than coincidence...
It's a blocking method. If 90% of the people who search a term are looking for the social platform it becomes much harder to find the book. Think of it like trying to find archival news articles about a perennial topic. You have to wade through all the recent shit and then there's 2 hits from the time period you're checking.
The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way
unless you're gay...
This is literally the plot for a Black Mirror episode.
From. Nosedive to be specific.
I think for was actually the right word choice there, because Black Mirror in no way came up with the concept
They made meow meow beans?
They've taken everything subjective and unspoken about human interaction and reduced it to explicit, objective numbers. I've never felt so alive.
“The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way,” RSSU said on the platform’s website. “But who knows what these figures will mean for you in the future?”
Well that's a relief...
When was the last time an entity that generated stats about someone didn’t end up with those stats being used to the detriment of the individual - or at the very least for the profit of another?
Oh shit it’s meow meow beans
You can see why all the M-Ls on this site want Russia to win their fascist invasion. Clearly the Revolution lives.
...but who knows...
Yeeaaaahhhhh, about that. We are totally not going the China way, its just that we are because fuck you.
Russia is a maffia state and should be dismantled, prove me wrong.
Omg, the RSSU, lmao. How is this not the Onion?
What's wrong with RSS-- Oh. Well, Putinism is opposite of communism.
Named “We,” the platform promises to determine a user’s comparative “social status” based on a survey that includes questions about income, family status, benefits, creditworthiness, criminal record, lifestyle and state awards, among others.
Criminal record: putin's scoreboard of excellency https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3174724/russias-putin-decorates-army-unit-accused-ukraine-war-crimes
How many putinpoints do they get for using a 3 to 13million$ Kh-101 cruise missile to bomb a children's hospital chemo ward?
Seems like RSSU is fishing for the government's money.
It's probably very badly implemented and doesn't work as described. In a sense this is good, but my point stands.
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