> If there are 1000 “me” profiles all saying different stuff, it’d be somewhat hard to pin down what I think and persecute me.
Noise-drowning only works against profiling that's set up with intent to measure you, rather than punish you.
I'm afraid, in autocracies and dictatorships, it takes one "me" profile (that could be not even mine) that said something out of current goodthink to be persecuted. Just look at what's going on in Russia.
The key point of those "we'll be using AI to monitor everything you publish" announcements is not in even it its directly stated goal. It's in the chilling effects this creates, making people avoid expressing their opinions except for unquestionably safe ones.
The same would happen in the EU, where police forces are scanning social media to find offenders.
I'd strongly advise having no public profile of any kind, or perhaps only a professional one where you religiously follow the rule of not posting anything remotely private.
> I'd strongly advise having no public profile of any kind
Unfortunately, this is effectively a suggestion to voluntarily degrade one's ability to have connect with others online. Either you participate and connect with people - and nearly inevitably leave information that can be used to build profiles, or you voluntarily exclude yourself from it. Sterile online profiles do not facilitate connections.
Noise-drowning only works against profiling that's set up with intent to measure you, rather than punish you.
I'm afraid, in autocracies and dictatorships, it takes one "me" profile (that could be not even mine) that said something out of current goodthink to be persecuted. Just look at what's going on in Russia.
The key point of those "we'll be using AI to monitor everything you publish" announcements is not in even it its directly stated goal. It's in the chilling effects this creates, making people avoid expressing their opinions except for unquestionably safe ones.