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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
The best thing to do for anyone worried about this is to always treat all others with respect, courtesy and kindness.
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Oh, totally. I'm just concerned that with more and more specific legislation, we're sliding feet first into a totalitarian country where everyone could be criminalized on request and nobody has the right to freedom of thought. It may be possible to use machine learning techniques to derive emotional state or internal thought processes by following someone's social media or series of facial expressions on CCTV. "We wouldn't want people to start having any negative thoughts now would we, since that can lead to mental health problems." (no politically centred or slightly-to-the-right of centre crimethink allowed, etc).
For example, imagine if someone began to question in their own mind whether or not the BBC should force everyone to wear a poppy. Oops. There's a van outside.