The most effective way to get rid of a right is to dilute it to meaninglessness. In this case, giving an artifact a critical human right means that actual, non-scalable, non-duplicable people can be drowned out in a torrent of manufactured noise, where that noise must be considered before it can be banned. Afraid of negative comments on a proposed new law? Craft a bot, multiply by 1000, and watch the bad comments recede into statistical irrelevance.
Corporations have already done this, in the US, with many property and speech rights. It hasn't benefited us so far, and yet here another well-intentioned (presumably) idiot wants to double down on reducing human impact in our political sphere. I guess Bender was right.
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The most effective way to get rid of a right is to dilute it to meaninglessness. In this case, giving an artifact a critical human right means that actual, non-scalable, non-duplicable people can be drowned out in a torrent of manufactured noise, where that noise must be considered before it can be banned. Afraid of negative comments on a proposed new law? Craft a bot, multiply by 1000, and watch the bad comments recede into statistical irrelevance. Corporations have already done this, in the US, with many property and speech rights. It hasn't benefited us so far, and yet here another well-intentioned (presumably) idiot wants to double down on reducing human impact in our political sphere. I guess Bender was right.