Been thinking about writing an article like this for a decade or so, especially linking it to the sharing of information between institutions such that access to (usual) public goods that people often use to function (Gmail Accounts, Apple Accounts, X accounts, any account or sign-in where the company can decide to ban you for any reason) ever since I heard about people potentially not being let into a bar because they behaved poorly at a different bar. This combined with cancel-like culture is going to make the future a very unfun place to live until the norms change and people realize what it’s like for their privacy and things they don’t consider all that bad about themselves to be judged by groups who find those things bad.
Been thinking about writing an article like this for a decade or so, especially linking it to the sharing of information between institutions such that access to (usual) public goods that people often use to function (Gmail Accounts, Apple Accounts, X accounts, any account or sign-in where the company can decide to ban you for any reason) ever since I heard about people potentially not being let into a bar because they behaved poorly at a different bar. This combined with cancel-like culture is going to make the future a very unfun place to live until the norms change and people realize what it’s like for their privacy and things they don’t consider all that bad about themselves to be judged by groups who find those things bad.