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The old Accidental Black Mirror.

I'm surprised /r/UnexpectedBlackMirror doesn't exist yet.

Unlike the inquisition, everybody expects Black Mirror these days.

The episode focused only on the downsides of this idea, not the upsides. And of course they chose the worst possible implementation to make the plot more juicy. With this attitude you can make any technology look bad.

If 20% of people cause 80% of the trouble and this idea fixes that, then perhaps there is some merit in the idea even if you consider the downsides.

And it should be algorithmically driven with all sorts of fun edge cases and poor maintenance.

Edit: oh, and obviously closed source, and have it's entire db leak about once a year due to excellent security.

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Nah... surely there's no way that software could mess up... people have all kinds of strange ideas, like traffic cameras looking for people using phones, and tag a guy scratching his head.... this surely is impossible to happen in real life with modern software.

On Couchsurfing we did. The problem was that it was ultimately under the control of a small group of people, and they sold out.

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