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posted by chromas on Monday October 22 2018, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly

Al Jazeera:

South Korea is in the grip of a "spycam" epidemic with covert footage of sex, nudity, and urination posted online in what amounts to a "social death penalty" for thousands of female victims.

The footage may be taken surreptitiously by boyfriends or captured on covert devices as small as car keys. Daily camera checks are now part of life for cleaners in many public toilets.

The spy camera phenomenon has reached such epidemic proportions in tech-savvy South Korea that tens of thousands of women have taken to the streets to march for action.

Srsly?

Previously: South Koreans Protest Spy Cam Pornography


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:15PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:15PM (#752568) Journal

    I've been saying variations on the same thing for years before that aired. But Altered Carbon does illustrate the point nicely, even if the premise requires a "black swan", namely the "stacks" (mind uploading). Maybe mind uploading can work in that way, but it seems like it would require many decades of development.

    The idea that we can continue to create enough new kinds of jobs in the face of rampant automation is laughable. Maybe automation won't wipe out every driver (armored cars, luxury chauffeurs), or every food service job (you could keep one or two employees at your McDonald's, and teppanyaki chefs could be considered performers, etc.). But it will eventually eliminate enough low-skilled positions to cause major problems. We could provide make-work government jobs or universal basic income in response, but I still see many people turning to sex work, and perhaps drug dealing if we still have a Drug War on (I think it will be ended... giving a junkie their government allowance of heroin allows you to keep tabs on them).

    Of course, sex workers will also be competing with automated sex bots, VR, etc. But a human sex worker (or slave) could be considered a novelty, like ice cream. As human labor becomes devalued, so will human lives. Perhaps income inequality will continue to increase, as the rich can just offshore their assets in response to tax threats (gotta pay for that UBI somehow). The rich will continue to support a lot of jobs, but some of them will be degrading. If you are worth almost nothing and there are many people who can take your place, you will be willing to do almost anything.

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