Semantics: What's the greater security threat to the Federation?

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• TheShadowKnows@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My head cannon is that a society that places personal autonomy as a core value avoids utilizing surveillance of their people as a means of societal control. It just does not occur to them to place cameras everywhere because it is so antithetical to their core values. That is also a reason Data gets so much leeway to act autonomously. Aside from people who want to diminish that freedom, everyone is just fine with the blanket protection of personal autonomy. Check out the book Surveillance Capitalism by Zuboff. It highlights the evergrowing behavioral manipulation tech companies are utilizing with surveillance and unethical behavioral shaping. Considering Star Trek is beyond capitalism, it makes a lot of sense that they would stop the unethical monitoring of individuals.

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  • nottheengineer@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree that it goes against their core values, but they have shitloads of internal sensors that could be used very unethically.

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also, stop bringing every random person who boards the ship to the bridge!

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• TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lack of circuit breakers and seatbelts.

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The way I figure, if the inertial dampers fail, everyone is gooified regardless of restraints.

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• OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Similar to surveillance, but the lack of pre-emptive warnings.

  “Captain there’s an unauthorized shuttle launch/transport”

  “Can you use the tractor beam/get a lock on them?”

  “They’re too far away/too much interference”

  “Can we please get a warning before the thing actually happens next time ensign?”

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The imagination of a tv show writer … that is a greatest security threat to the federation

  Ever see tv show writers in 24th century? There’s a reason why they don’t exist in their time period.

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• MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” - some 24th century ensign…

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