The soft coup of networked power:

Network power > State power

Terms of Service > Bill of Rights

Social AIs replace secret police

Social deplatforming replaces arrest and imprisonment (for dissidents)

— John Robb (@johnrobb) September 29, 2020

And

A small example of networked social cascade:

1) We get a parking ticket from a community college we never visited that lists our license plate but incorrectly describes our car make/model. Apparently, the private security guard transcribed it wrong. We ignore it.

1/n

— John Robb (@johnrobb) September 29, 2020

Worth reading: “Weapons of Math Destruction“.