Techno-Fascism

What is to be made of the latest move by Apple® to allegedly combat pedophilia and child abuse? Every iPhone in the world will eventually be loaded with a utility that searches through the device’s photo library, text messenger, and e-mail client for contraband. The utility will use “machine learning” (read: AI) to compare “hashes” of photos on the device with a database of “hashes” of contraband.

How many pedophiles are there in the world? Millions? That’s the “red flag” here. The reason for the forced install of the utility is to fight evil criminals, albeit a very small minority. Then, “mission creep” becomes operative.

The AI utility has “administrator” privileges on iOS, which means it could access everything on the device including third-party “apps.” The AI tasking is done through a programming language, so the AI utility is not “hard wired” for one particular task. It can easily be reprogrammed to do anything. That’s the beauty of AI, isn’t it?

Thus, what starts out as a search for pedophilia can quickly evolve to a search for “woke” violations, “hate” speech, “racial” supremacy, terrorism, insurrection, and so forth. Every photo, every e-mail, every text message, and possibly every phone call can be monitored or scanned for the “hash” equivalent of allegedly criminal or “politically incorrect“ behavior.

The scenario should be familiar. What started out as “super-duper corona” is now in the “medical tyranny” phase of the plan-demic. All roads lead to total Facism.

The iPhone 12 is now basically a doorstop, which means that it needs to go. In the last year, the entire iPhone experience was miserable. First, the “super-duper corona” API was embedded in iOS. Well, at least the latter can be disabled. Then, the CEO of Apple® began publicly “spouting off” his “woke” bullshit. Then, the rapidly deteriorating battery bullshit. Now, there’s the Orwellian AI on-device scanner which cannot be disabled. When will this nonsense end?

Update: The “super-duper corona” daily “case” tallies have been over 600 for two days, purely rigged by all of the free PCR testing centers that popped up over the last week. The rank-and-file peons are definitely panicking. Full-time face mask usage is close to 100% of the local population. Clearly, there’s something sinister afoot.