I know that sounds like a horrible violation of individual freedom, but we already treat children and cognitively impaired elderly people that way. Maybe to graduate from childhood to adult-who-can-sign-contracts, have sexual relationships, vote, etc. everyone has to pass a test, and it's retested periodically in case you regress.
if its harmful in some way to some person the “obvious” solution is to means test the entire population for their competency to vote or have sex? i dont own a samsung fridge, but okay sure. sign me up for some weird battery of invasive tests and write me out of life so Samsung can sell hardware and ads.
maybe samsung can even serve me some personalized ads based on my test results.
everyone in big tech is guided by “CAN we do this?” and never “SHOULD we do this?” and theyre totally unaccountable for all of it.
it doesnt matter who it hurts or how it hurts them. thats why they they do whatever they want.
and if something goes wrong, hey i know! lets just turn the screws even tighter on every man woman and child so Samsung can do whatever it wants.
Id tell you to go hell but it sounds like we’re already all in it.
im sorry if thats rude but it actually was the most polite thing i could come up with.
I'm not really talking about this fridge specifically, but generally vulnerable people making self-destructive decisions out of not understanding the world or of being manipulated.
I agree the test itself would probably be too much of a burden but it wouldn't necessarily tighten the screws. We'd have teenagers who pass and can start a business themselves or get married or whatever, along with adults who fail and are protected from fraud, sexual abuse, etc.
The way we currently do it is like apartheid. Assign rights based on some crude metric that's easy to test (race/age) instead of evaluating everyone individually.
Sounds reasonable to test them as well. You shouldn’t be allowed to build home appliances if you’re disabled to the degree you fail this test. Executives, other employees, etc.
Children and the elderly are often not treated as human, and it's not a good thing. We should be looking at restricting corporate freedom a little bit before jumping to creating another explicit legal underclass of people.
Most people are thinking of restricting free human beings from buying fridges with ads. I’m saying that should only happen to the disabled who would be exploited. Rather than turn everyone into a underclass, I propose we explicitly do that only to those who are unable to live without our overwatch.
The net freedom should be higher in this scenario.
