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For the past 10 years or so I’ve pretty much lived under the assumption that at some point someone figures out a system that digs through the entire internet and everything anyone has ever posted gets linked back to them.

At the same time, it’s both great and absolutely horrifying.

What’s horrifying is that everything you’ve ever posted gets linked back to you.

What’s great is that none of it can really be used against you anymore - because we now know that absolutely everyone is a massive hypocrite and nobody is without sin.

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KnitWit@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The Private Eye by Brian K Vaughn used that as a premise (set in 2076) for a comic run about a decade ago.

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Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Some really good advice that someone gave me once is that the internet doesn’t exist.

Sure, it obviously does exist, but this was about communication style. When you send an email, you change codes and don’t write in the same way as a WhatsApp - you can expand your points more… But you should never forget you’re talking to a person - just because it’s internet, you shouldn’t talk any different to them.

You shouldn’t assume that the message is anonymous just because it’s internet. You shouldn’t assume certain things are okay “just because it’s internet”.

I don’t think they were 100% right because they were disregarding that code changing between different mediums and audiences is normal (you don’t talk the same way to your boss and your partner, or in written form vs spoken), but I do stand by the point that you shouldn’t change code or make assumptions just because “internet”.

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- krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Seems like we could all just mellow out a bit. You shouldn’t need to be afraid of saying stuff that isn’t perfectly pc now or in the past. Obviously there’s a difference between an off color joke and shit you would find in the Epstein files but I’m not particularly concerned about anything I’ve posted coming back to me. I’ve had bad takes (I’m sure I still do) and said things in the past that I no longer agree with, but who cares? That’s what life is like. You change over time in more ways than one. If someone wants to judge me harshly for that then we probably don’t weren’t going to hang out anyway so fuck em. Let them react how they want.
  
  That being said, the implications of this kind of technology being used by corporations or the government are quite different. There may be value in what you’re saying from that perspective.
  
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Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I mean, there’s even a website (don’t remember the name) that lets you upload a photo of a person and it will show all pictures of that person that are on the web.

Like a Google search but for your face. Super creepy.

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silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’ll never work. The internet is messy like a jungle, I might find bird crap somewhere but it will not get me the bird. I might find a turned leaf, but what turned the leaf will never be known to me. All despite me being able to reason and investigate phenomena that occur.

I view all things like particle systems: There are general trends, sometimes we can observe how single particles travel and we can derive rules from their behavior. Yet we are never able to see everything, let alone know everyone.

No use going paranoid over preliminary results from a tool we readily use but don’t fully comprehend the limitations of.

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