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What do you mean? Any corporation you're trying to transact with can already tell you to get lost, regardless of how you try to pay them.


What is being proposed by CBDC, and digital ID, health pass, social media, etc (even some proposals to roll all into one) means that there will literally be an API (wrapping the other APIs) that can categorize and punish (future policy will use it to do it no doubt... "Carrot and stick") people by the tens of millions, effortlessly and automatically, based on what happens to one part of the aforementioned being seamlessly linked to the rest.

So yes, right now they can "unperson" someone in a targeted fashion across a dozen (for now) unlinked channels working together in different ways, which we just see happening to people we consider undesirable, extreme, or hateful etc.

But they cannot do that in a serious and automated way at scale across all channels to a more average person (right now the more manual approach is too much effort). They are currently proposing+building APIs that enable it at scale.




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