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EGreg 10 hours ago

Or else!

“Sir, we are coming by today because we are concerned you are insufficiently supportive of our public servants in uniform. It has come to our attention that you have been disparaging some members of our law enforcement divisions to groups as large as 100 people! This is part of our new thought policing initiatives, we need everyone to support our policing efforts!”

“Yes, I work for Flock Online. We only index statements posted at publicly accessible URLs, which in principle anyone can see. We are able to profile every person at scale for a more effective community policing database. This new thought policing initiative is being carried out as a public-private partnership with the full support of your county’s representatives, as a way to preserve our community’s harmony and enhance social cohesion.”

“Please don’t be alarmed, the AI flagged you but I assure you, this is a real human in the loop wanting to talk to you about your comments. I am here because we know you’d be home around this time. Can you please come down to the station with us?”

M3L0NM4N 10 hours ago | parent [-]

This is not an issue with bad policing, but bad policy.

cwillu 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If your notion of good/bad policing is predicated on perfect policy, your notion of good/bad policing does not survive contact with the real world.

I expect this argument is actually a poison pill for some anarchist or libertarian fantasy of “if the laws fit onto a single sheet of paper all these problems would just go away”.

M3L0NM4N 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You are wrong in your expectation, I really just dream of being able to actually police crime. Which we do horribly.

EGreg 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The policy is: Everyone should be for successful policing.

We just want the enforcement of this policy to be maximally successful! What’s wrong with that :-)