My thoughts exactly. Your retinal scan pattern is pretty unique and permanent. So is your DNA. So are your fingerprints. Tattoos would be incredibly easy to duplicate or fake, no matter how intricate they were. If someone can design it, someone else can copy it. Dumb patent, amen.
If by "anything they don't like", you mean "tactics meant to control mass thought", you're right. This may not be censorship...yet...but it certainly lays the groundwork for it. You don't start off censoring right away, you build up to it. Frankly, I'm getting scared of our own world. Between Australia's outrageous net law and America's states beginning to deny the teaching of evolution in *science* classes, I weep for the future. I'm reading "Revolt in 2100" by Heinlein, and let me tell you, I can see it becoming reality if we don't pay attention. To quote my favorite Bill of No Rights (without attribution, I don't know who wrote it): Article II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone -- not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc., but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.
Unfortunately, this kind of thing proves the last point and kind of buries the truth of the first part. Fight stupidity, in all its forms.
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My thoughts exactly. Your retinal scan pattern is pretty unique and permanent. So is your DNA. So are your fingerprints. Tattoos would be incredibly easy to duplicate or fake, no matter how intricate they were. If someone can design it, someone else can copy it. Dumb patent, amen.
Unfortunately, this kind of thing proves the last point and kind of buries the truth of the first part. Fight stupidity, in all its forms.