{"id":8277,"date":"2020-09-29T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:42:59","slug":"the-soft-coup-of-networked-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8277","title":{"rendered":"The soft coup of networked power"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The soft coup of networked power:<\/p>\n<p>Network power &gt; State power<\/p>\n<p>Terms of Service &gt; Bill of Rights<\/p>\n<p>Social AIs replace secret police<\/p>\n<p>Social deplatforming replaces arrest and imprisonment (for dissidents)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Robb (@johnrobb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnrobb\/status\/1310926238287101952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A small example of networked social cascade:<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>1\/n<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Robb (@johnrobb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnrobb\/status\/1310922186161557504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Worth reading: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com\/\">Weapons of Math Destruction<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soft coup of networked power: Network power &gt; State power Terms of Service &gt; Bill of Rights Social AIs replace secret police Social deplatforming replaces arrest and imprisonment (for dissidents) &mdash; John Robb (@johnrobb) September 29, 2020 And A small example of networked social cascade: 1) We get a parking ticket from a community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8278,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}