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Ethics Exam 3 Flashcards

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What is the catholics church’s stance towards technology?

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Green says technology should be divided by good, neutral, and bad, because technology has a means to an end

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Catholic churchs stance on technology relates to actions as either

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prohibited, permissible, obligatory

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The church holds that faith and reason lead to the same?

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Truth and are not in opposition to each other

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Histrically christians and catholic institutions have been at the forefront of?

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Scientific dicovery and development in engineering and architecture

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The church has disapproved certain technologies like ?

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Weapons technologies (Just war theory)

Human reproduction technologies

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The catholic church opposes the?

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Technocratic paradigm and scientism

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The technocratic paradigm

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can be understood as the belief that every problem is merely one of efficiency and that therefore technology can solve every problem, without the intervention of ethics. The technocratic paradigm explicitly violates the catholic church.

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As humans become more powerful we can?

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Do more and have more choices therefore will be more things to say not to

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Corporate social responsibility (people planet profit )

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Based on the premise that an organization should take responsibility for its impact on environment, community, and welfare of its employees

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Corporate social responsibility expands from

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responsibility from guideline of respect to guideline of care/CST

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Supply chain substantiality

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developing and maintaining a supply chain that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs

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Enviormental, social, and governance, aka stakeholder captialism

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investing refers to a set of standards for a company’s behavior used by socially conscious investors to screen potential investments, social credit score for corporations

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ESG enviormental criteria

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consider how a company’s safeguards the environments, including corporate policies addressing climate change for example

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ESG social critiea

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examine how it manages relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities where it operates

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ESG goverance critea

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deals with a company leadership, executive pay audits, internal controls, and shareholder rights

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Catholic social teaching

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Catholic doctrines on matters of human dignity and common good in society

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10 building blocks of catholic social teaching

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  1. The principal of human dignity
  2. The principal of respect for human life
  3. The principal association
  4. The principal of participation
  5. The principle of preferential protection for the poor and vulnerable
  6. The principal of solidarity
  7. The principal of stewardship
  8. The principle of subsidiarity
  9. The principle of human equality
  10. The principle of common good
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Shareholder theory

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According to economist Milton Friedman, the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits

“Insofar as (business executives) actions in accord with his social responsibility reduce returns to stockholders”

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Problem with shareholder theory

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short term oriented, evil, or greedy managers or owners

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Can ESG/CSR/CST (stakeholder capitalism) and the Friedman doctrine (shareholder capitalism) be reconciled?

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Shareholders and other stakeholders may want managers to act in ESG/CSR ways even if profits are reduced, pay is reduced, and prices are increased

Some ESG/CSR-type actions may support the long-term profits of a business so that there is no tradeoff between ESR/CSR and profits

ESG/CSR type actions may increase employee and customer loyalty

Reducing waste may increase efficiency

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7 themes of catholic social teaching

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  1. Life and dignity of the human person
  2. Call to family, community, and participation
  3. Rights and responsibilities
  4. Option for the poor and vulnerable
  5. The dignity of work and the rights of workers
  6. Solidarity
  7. Care for god’s creation
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The principal of human dignity

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“Every human being is created in the image of God and redeemed by Jesus Christ, and therefore is invaluable and worthy of respect as a member if human family”

It is not what you do or what you have that gives you a claim on respect; it is simply being human that esbashlies your dignity, given that dignity, the human person is never a means, always an end

Consistent with Gomez-Lobo on dignity humans as ends not means (contra utilitarianism)

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The principal of respect for human life

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Human life at every stage of development and decline is precious and therefore worthy of protection and respect. It is always wrong directly to attack and innocent

Implication: technologies that terminate human life after conception or before natural death are evil

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The principal of particpation

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The human person has a right not to be shut out from participating in those institutions that are necessary for human fulfillment

Work is more than a way to make a living it is a form of continuing participation in God’s creation

This is stated as a “negative right” (violation of the guideline of respect

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The principle of subsidiarity

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Limits government by insisting that no higher eve log organization should perform any function that can be handled efficiently and effectively at a lower level of organization that is closer to the problems and closer to the ground

Encouraged decentralized voluntary associations

Note: these principals fall into the liberal/conservative paradigm

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Guideline of care (what are the two ides aligned with the guideline of care)

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Preference for the poor and vulnerable
If the good of all, the common good, is to prevail, preferential protection must move toward those affected adversely by the absence of power and the presence of privation

Solidarity
We are our brothers and sisters’ keepers we are one human family, loving out neighbor has global dimensions in an independent world

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Guideline of respect

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Stewardship

“The catholic tradition insists that we show our respect for the creator by our stewardship of creation.”

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Death by robots

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US citizens die 3 years sooner than people in other rich countries-increased US deaths driven by less educated working age adults

1 robot per 1,000 workers=8 male deaths and 4 female deaths per 100,000 workers aged 45-54

Drug overdose, suicide, homicide, cancer, CV problems

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Migrating factors death by robots

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Medicaid/UI generosity (overdose, suicide)
Pro union policies, high minimum wages (suicide)
Maybe less opioid availbilty (weak association)

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Robots coming for our jobs optimistc scenario

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Robots wil relieve humans from physical and mental drudgery

Robots will complement humans not replace them

Increased productivity will be tide that lifts all boats

Humans will have more time for lesiure and creative pursuits

Human will beneift from cheaper and better products and services

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Robots coming for our jobs Pessmistic scenario

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Robots will replace human workers snce they will be smarter and stronger than humans

Humans will lose sense of purpose

There will be masters and serfs

The time its different

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Systems that dissimulate by design

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Commercial thermostats

Institutional malware

Commercial sensors and law enforcement stingrays and dirt boxes to capture cell phone data

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Nudging (karen Yeung)

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using behavioral science insights to influence individual choices “libertarian paternalism”

Uses the framework o human floruishing dignity respect and autonomy

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Hyper nudge

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insights gained through big data are used to channel user choices in the direction preferred by the choice architect through processes that are both subtle and powerful

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Dynamic reconguration

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refinement of induvial choice environment, induvial data feedback incorporation of population wide trends. This is what turns a nudge into a hyper nudge

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Examples of a hypernudge

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search engine results or news feeds designed to increase time online or target applications Amazon presentation of products

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The social dilemma 3 goals

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engagement, growth, advertisement

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The social dilemmma

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Use of psychological manipulation and behavior modification (based on an asymmetry of knowledge

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Whats the issue with the choice nudge lies chapter

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All business care about is profit.”

“Corporations are greedy.”

Organizations have objectives and are organized to fulfill those objectives

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Survelliance Capitalism

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Describes a market driven process where the commodity for sale is personal datat and behavioral predictions based on the aggregation of such data is captured via the internet or other means that can be digitized

This activity is often carried out by companies that provide us with free online services such as search engines (Google) and social media platforms (facebook

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The techniques of surveillance capitalism can and are being applied to the?

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government/political sphere

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Key criticisms of surveillance capitalism

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Invasion of privacy
Manipulation of behavior
Concentration of power
Lack of transparency
Use of people as “mere means”

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Themes of survelliance captialism

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About us, not for us”

“Inevitable outgrowth of digital technology”

Attribution of agency (free will) to technologies (example: search engines retain information

*People as raw materials rather than ends in themselves

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Zuboff

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privacy is a social problem, privacy is not private, freedom from uncertainty is no freedom

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Surveillance capitalism started with internet companies but now seeking surveillance divided

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A society is built that creates human needs, then surveillance capitalism exploits those needs

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Is capitalism ethical?

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In its pure, theoretical form, a good “yes” argument can be made under natural law, ultraism, and moral libertinism

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Real world issues associated with captialism

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Government
Concentration of wealth and power
Unfairness of goods of fortune
Greed can lead to good or bad

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Hagans two cents

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A system built on free will works best in a culture made up of ethical people

The merger of state and corporate power must be avoided

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Autonomous (self-driving) vehicles

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Accident avoidance-deciding who lives and who dies

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Electric cars (EVs)

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Environmental impact

Supply chain issues-sourcing of minerals disposition of batteries

Opportunity costs-could the extra cost of electric cars be better spent elsewhere

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level 0 layers of autonomy

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all major systems are controlled by humans

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level 1 layers of autonomy

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certain systems such as cruise control or automatic braking may be controlled by the car one at a time

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level 2 layers of autonomy

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The car offers at least two simultaneous automated functions, like acceleration and steering, but requires humans for operation

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level 3 layers of autonomy

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The car can management all safety-critical functions under certain conditions, but the driver is expected to take over when alerted

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Level 4 layers of autonomy

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The car is fully autonomous in some driving scenarios though not all

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Level 5 layers of autonomy

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The car is completely capable of self-driving in every situation

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Will your electric car save the world or wreck it?

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The case for EVs assumes carbon emissions cause catastrophic climate change. Yields a metric that works well with a utilitarian perspective or the CST stewardship principle.

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Natural perspective electric cars

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Rule 1: don’t directly attack a human good, don’t commit an evil act to achieve some good end

Rule 2: guideline of care: where possible and practical seek to advance the good of others (but not if it violated rule 1)

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Social engineering oppurtunites

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o Wasteful and polluting cars
o Unhealthy food/drinks
o Wasteful insufficient big houses
o Low density subrarban living
o Poor health habits
o Bad child rearing
o Unnecessary travel
o Optimize travel talents and employment
o Healthcare spending

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Green says technology is hallmark or morality… meaning

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technology is whether is influences good or bad moral actions

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It’s a synthesis of various doctrines. As such, various commentators include different elements and emphasize different aspects

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Catholic social teaching

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Catholic social teaching attemtpts to balance?

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Attempts to balance respect for human liberty, including the right to private property and subsidiarity, and concern for the whole society, including the weakest, and poorest

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Privacy

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is the ability of an induvial or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively

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From the perspective of those minimizing the significant of a right to privacy

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Privacy is only a concern of aging old-school civil libertarians; it’s not relevant to today’s concerns-equity, inclusion, crime, terrorism, etc.

We can’t do anything about loss of privacy anyway

Privacy provides care for: drug dealers, smugglers, tax evaders, money launders, child molesters, human trafficker’s, terrosts, insurrections, cyber bullies

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Privacy advocate Greenwald on “only bad people seek privacy”

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He concluded that only people who will seek out privacy are bad people, and we should have all kinds of reasons for avoiding

He says “doing bad things” means doing something that poses meaningful challenges to the exercise of our own power

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Natural law on privacy

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Privacy connected to concepts of dignity, freedom, integrity

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Utiliarnism on privacy

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privacy “right” contingent on the situation

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Moral libertarnism on privacy

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right to be left alone unless an agreement is made otherwise

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Privacy in the “Good view”

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that contributes to human flourishing and well-being. It allows people to develop personality, expresses their options, and pursue their interests without undue interference or coercion

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Privacy as Duty

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that respects the dignity, autonomy and freedom of others. It requires people to refrain from invading or disclosing the personal information or affairs o others without their consent or a valid reason.

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Is privacy found in the US consitution?

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Is it found in the US constitution?
Not explicitly, but

  • 1st amendment protects the privacy of beliefs
  • 3rd amendment protects the privacy of the home against the use of it for housing soldiers
  • 4th amendment protects privacy again unreasonable searchers
  • 5th amendment protects against self-incrimination which in turn protects the privacy of personal information
  • 9th amendment justifies the bill of rights to protect privacy in ways not specially provided in the first 8 amendments
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Supreme court decisions on privavcy

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a right to privacy exists, but it must be balanced agasitn compelling interests

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Examples of privacy

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HIPAA, FERPA, wiretap laws

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Know rights to privacy!

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Police need a warrant to enter your home, if you consent to search the police don’t need a warrant

Police can ask for your spouses, guess, and roommates can ask for access to their materials if they don’t have a warrant

Even if your arrested, police can only search your phone under limited circumstances

If the police can’t get into your computer, you don’t have to help them or anser questions

Police can search your computer or portable devise at the border without the warrant

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Eternal Vigligance

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is the price of liberty, Snowden’s NSA revelations were just examples of a larger continually evolving problem

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Problems with the traditional approaches to privacy

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The pace of change of technology overwhelms the ability of traditional means of law making and regulation to respond.

Today’s privacy threats are often hidden, not well-understood, and involve users trading clear, obvious, short-term benefits for subtle, long term, potentially problematic information giveaways

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Direct overt violations of privacy by the government are now just one concern.

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Indirect government violations of privacy via proxies in the private sector

Private sector entities violating privacy for commercial reasons

78
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Greenwald on disenters

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The renowned socialist activist Rosa Luxemburg once said, “He who does not move does not notice his chains.” ***

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1st amendment freedom of experssion and control

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Protects Americans’ rights to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government restrictions

“Speech” includes nonverbal, visual, and symbolic forms of expression

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1st amendment does not protect

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 Perjury and fraud
 Defamation and obscene speech
 Incitement of panic and incitement to crime
 Fighting words and sedition

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1st amendement as a cultural touchstone

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“I can say what I want. It’s a free country.” According to Google trends, “It’s a free country” had a peak in 2004 declining to 14 % of its peak in 2021

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Thomas Paine, rabblerouser

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o man of (natural law) integrity
o “He who dares not offend cannot be honest”

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American civil liberties union defenders of hate speech

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Ku Klux Klan, Nazis in Skokie, Illinois

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First Amendment Exception: Defamation

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Statement of alleged fact that is false and that harms another person

o Slander: Oral defamatory statement
o Libel: written defamatory statement

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First amendment protection of anonymous speech

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Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all

Anonymity not absolute right-cannot be used to defame for example

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Justifications of autonomity on the internet

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  • Seeking help from a support group
  • Reporting problems/whistleblowing
  • Discussing sensitive topics
  • Expressing a minority or anti-government opinion
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Concerns with autonomity on the internet

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  • Increased chance of defamation, fraud
  • Exploitation of children
  • Escape detection from criminal activity
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Speech control mechanism

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o 1st amendment exceptions
o Broadcast rules
o Shouting down live speakers at events
o Internet regulation (By law or extra-legal enforced preferences)
 Government use of private companies or proxies
 Content moderation
 Terms of service
 Deplatforming
 Twitter mobs

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Controlling access to the internet: Section 230 of the CDA

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Provides immunity to internet service provider (ISP) that publishes user generated content provided its actions do not rise toto the level of content provider

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Controlling access to information on the internet-
Children online protection Act (COPA 1998

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Imposed penalties for exposing minors to harmful material on the web

Ruled as unconstitutional by the supreme court

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Controlling Access to information on the internet: Internet filter

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Software that blocks access certain web sites that contain material deemed inappropriate or offensive

Uses a combination of URL, keyword, and dynamic content filtering

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Controlling access to information on the internet: Childrens internet protection act

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Requires federally financed schools and libraries to block computer access to obscene material, pornography, and anything else harmful to minors

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Criticisms to controlling access to the internet

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  • Transferred power over education to software companies who develop the internet filters
  • Some filters are ineffective
  • Penalties resulting in a loss of federal funds (E-rate) would lead to a less capable version of internet for students at poorer schools
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Internet censorship

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Control of the publishing or accessing of information on the internet

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Forms of internet censorship

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 Limiting access to certain web sites
 Allowing access to only some content or modified content at certain web sites
 Rejecting the use of the certain keywords in search engine searchers
 Tracking the internet activites of individuals
 Jailing induvial for their internet use

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Goverments that actively censor the internet

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North Korea, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, China, Cuba, Egypt

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Free speech online

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United States has a form of soft censorship through pressure tactics and private sector partners

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Examples of free speech online

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 COVID-19 science and medical discussion
 Ukraine-Russia conflict
 Hunter Biden laptop story

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New platforms related to free speech online

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Rumble, Odyssey, BittChite, Gab, Telegram, MeWe, Gettr, parler

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Free speech online stats

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**25% of people often get news form google properties, 36% from facebook (61% total)

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Freedom: internet and speech

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Universal communication

102
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Control: internet and speech

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o A few platforms dominate
o Can be monitored
o Cancel culture

103
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Internet DE platforming

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removing people from the internet platforms they use for communication

examples:
“Demonetization” on YouTube
Rejection of business by payment processors and ISPs
Rejection of business by payment processors and ISPs
Stripe and Paypal, GoDaddy, AWS
Debanking-candian trucker’s protest
“You shouldn’t have to build a new internet to post a tweet.”

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Alleged misinformation areas

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Inference of Russia in US elections, including New York post Hunter Biden laptop story

COVID-a9 origins, vaccine efficacy, value of natural immunity

Racial justice

US withdrawal from Afghanistan

US support for Ukraine

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Tools to suppress alleged misinformation

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DE platforming-banning user accounts (Trump, Covid heretics)

Visibility filtering

Direct payments from governments to big tech to “process requests” (FBI paid twitter 3.4 million)

Promoting accounts to support US military covert operations

Deception: platforms pretending to be independent when really taking orders from the government behind the scenes

Aborted DHS disinformation governance board (aka ministry of truth)

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Sunstein on libertarian paternalism (Nudge)

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People can still make a free choice but are nudged to do the right thing

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Justifications given by Sunstein for nudging

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Some people don’t know how to get where they want to go

Some people are poor planners

Some people have unrealistic expectations

No one is an expert in everything

108
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Sunstein on libertarian paternalism opt in/opt out

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Savings plans (cities ultradian benefits)
School lunch programs

109
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Nudging assumptions and premises

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Nudging relies on behavioral insights of which you may not be consciously aware

The people nudging you know your best interests and seek to promote them

The people nudging you aren’t on a power trip and have no finical or political conflicts of interest

The slippery slope won’t be problem

True, unmanipulated exercise of natural law free will is suboptimal from utilitarian perspective and therefore not important

110
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Collaroy

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you may not be smart enough to know your own best interest and, if you do, you might be too lazy or stupid to act rightly

111
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Level one degree of nudging

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make the right choice the default option or the path of the least resistance

112
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Level 2 degree of nudging

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Give you a treat for making the “right” choice or penalize you if you make a wrong choice

113
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Level 3 degree of nudging

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Put the nudging on steroids (hypernudge) by using computer-driven algorithmic decision-guidance techniques

114
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Level 4 degree of nudging

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Stop messing with nudging and just use force to make people do the “right” thing. Of course, you could argue that’s what the rule-of law- system does, but its scope is limited

115
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Hypernudge

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Insights gained through Ig data are used to channel user choices in the direction preferred by the choice architect though processes that are both subtle and powerful

116
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Hypernudge uses the framework of liberal values:

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dignity, respect, autonomy, democracy, but also poses a challenge to these values

117
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Hypernudge dynamic reconfiguration

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refinement of induvial choice environment, individual data feedback, incorporation of population-wide trends. His is what turns a nudge into hyper nudge

118
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Example of a hypernudge

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search engine results or news feeds designed to increase time online on targeted applications (Google), Amazon presentation of products

119
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Difference between nudge and hypernudge

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Nudge
-is static, general, and somewhat, transparent,
-a one size fits all basis
-visible and easy to understand
-can be designed to respect people’s autonomy and dignity

Hypernudge
-dynamic indicualized and opaque
-operates on a one-to-one basis
-is hidden and difficult to comprehend
-challenges these values (autonomy and dignity)

120
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The appeal of social credit

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Non-coercive-gently nudges people in the right direction

Scientific Organized and efficient

Self-enforcing and self-correcting. Can use AI

Fair, impartial

121
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Chinas system with social credit system

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Used To assess and monitor trustworthiness of individuals and organizations. Supports transparency and honesty

122
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Whose in charge of the china social credit system ?

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government, central bank, courts

123
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Chinas soical credit system described as

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expanded version of existing credit rating systems

124
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Chinas social credit system values

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harmoniousness, safety, security

125
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Chinas social credit system values criticism

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totalitarian

126
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Ethics of social credit system

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It would adopt ultraism, it would be hard for it to be natural law

They only care about the results not why you’re doing it

127
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Function of money

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o Medium of exchange
o Unit of account
o Store of value
o Instrument of control?

128
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Money was originally

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a tradable commodity or tied to such a commodity (gold or silver) The US had a gold standard. For much of the gold standard period the price of gold was fixed

129
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The US gold standard largely in 1933, entirely ended in 1971

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The US government confiscated the gold of citizens in 1933 at 20.67 $ and then revalued the collar at 35$/oz of gold. Citizens were not allowed to own gold again until 1974

130
Q

We currently live under a (money)

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“fiat” and fractional reserve system where the dollar “floats relative to other currencies is not redeemable for gold, anything else.

131
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Under the fiat system who controls the money supply through the central bank of the united stated

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The goverment

132
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Problems with fiat system

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 Boom and bust cycles
 Cantillon effect (advantage to first recipients of new money)
 Tendency to inflation since the government is the largest debtor, incentive for real saving, incentive to take on debt

133
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Benefits to the fiat system

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Ability of the government to manage the economy through the Fed (monterary policy)

Examples: easy money to goose the economy during the pandemic current efforts to reduce inflammation

134
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Boogeyman of deflation (falling prices

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In a stable monetary system, prices would naturally fall as productivity increased. The result would be improvements in the standard of living, since your money would buy more and more

135
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The US dollar, since the silver certificate in 1953, has depriciated by how much?

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97 %

136
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The US dollar since the gold certificate in1928 has depriciated by how much?

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99%

137
Q

Currently paying with cash can be a way to pay?

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Anonymously

138
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To avoid criminality evasion government has sought to limit?

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anonymous cash payments for large transactions

139
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Anonymity can be compromised through

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finical intermediaries (credit card companies, frequent, buyer programs and records kept by retailers

140
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Bank Secrecy Act (1970) as amended

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Designed to fight money laundering fraud, financing terrorists

Requires customer identification programs, suspicious activity reports, reporting cash transactions over 10,000 $

141
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Crytocurrency

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A form of digital money that uses cryptography and blockchain to secure and verify transactions. Cryptocurrency is decentralized and distributed, meaning, it is not controlled or issued by any government, central authority or intermediary.

142
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New bitcoins are

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mined based on solving an increasing difficult algorithm. Supply is fixed and coins are progressively more difficult and computing- and energy-intensive to mine

143
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Results of widely adopted crypto

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undermining of governments ability to undertake monetary , fascial, and drug policy, To a libertarian, these are benefits. To Statist, these are big drawback.

144
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A central bank digital currency (CBDC)

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is a form of digital money that is issued and controlled by a central bank. It is designed to be legal tender and a digital equilivent of the existing fiat currency of the country. “The digital dollar”

145
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CBDCs are digital but they are not

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Crypto

146
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Both crypto and CBDCs could eliminate

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paper cash and coins and potentially be convenient to use

147
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Crypto

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-is largely unregulated or community regulated
-cryptos are volatile
-can be anonymous

148
Q

CBDCS

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-government
-would likely gradually depreciated money based government policy
-make every transaction trackable by government.
-would reduce or eliminate under the table payments , black markets, lemonade stands, and informal work

149
Q

A CBDC would create new “policy tools” for managing the economy such as

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Forcing you to spend some of your money during an economic downturn

Forcing you to save some of your money

Allowing government to easily turn off your money if you are disfavored based on a social credit system or a criminal or a dissident

150
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CBDC pairs well with

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technocratic ideas such as 15 minute cities and social credit systems

151
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To some observers, CBDCs are the

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“end game” for complete control of the population

152
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Technoncracy

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A form of government in which the decisionmakers are selected on the basis of their examples of their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with scientific or technical knowledge

153
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Technate

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a techo-utopin state run according to technocratic

154
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Technocracy proposed which type of system ?

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energy-based system

155
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Technoncracy rejects

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democracy as elevating mediocrities. Favors selection of experts by experts to lead aspects of society. Doctors elect head doctor, etc.

156
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Techoncratic impluses are ruled by

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experts (Follow the Science!) vs. Populism. (Trump, yellow vest, protest)

157
Q

World economic forum

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elites planning how to restructure society

158
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Dr. Fauci on court decision ending federal transportation mask mandate

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public health decisions should be made by experts like him.

159
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Alternatice view technocratic impluses

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experts should be “on tap” not “on top.” Decisions usually come down to value judgments, not “the science.”

160
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The problem of political authority is that

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conflict guaranteed.

161
Q

Technologies are used to control

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Our enviorment and each other

162
Q

Objectification of nature

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Judeo-Christian religions and utilitarianism reinforce the idea that nature is a resource for human use.

163
Q

Objection of people

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Military control, surveillance, bureaucracy. People as cogs in the machine.

164
Q

Examples of out of control technologies

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Frankenstein’s monster, kudzu

165
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The revenge of unintended consequences with out of control technology

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 Labor-saving housework devices
 Paperless office
 Telecommuting / take vacation whenever you want
 Smartphones

166
Q

Master and Slaves natural law

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Slavery is an inhuman system

167
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Masters and salves

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The Master demands not only the dependence of the Slave but also acknowledgement of the master’s superior position.

The Master hates and fears the Slave.

Masters cannot let their Slaves get too smart.

The Master needs overseers to enforce the system. Overseers are often cruel, allowing the Master to appear benevolent.

Ordinary people as indebted producers, consumers, tax donkeys.

168
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Most people do not want to be free. Most people want

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to be taken care of. Favor basic income, protection racket, entertainment - bread & circuses.

169
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Modern democracy is largely manufactured

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consent for what elites want to do. The illusion of debate is managed through enforcement of narrow “Overton windows.”

170
Q

Society is increasingly atomized and homogenized to

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minimize opposition to the regime. What interest and identity groups remain are pitted against each other to create chaos while the ruling elite remains largely unchallenged. Steam blown off at the “slave suggestion box.”

171
Q

Most people just want to be left alone, so they

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compromise with those willing to push an agenda over a long time horizon. Over time gradual change adds up to radical change.

172
Q

Classical liberal tolerance leads to

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Marxist intolerance

173
Q

The worst crime is resisting the

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regime or undermining its legitimacy.

174
Q

Clash of world views

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Western civilization = classical liberalism + Judeo-Christian ethics.

175
Q

Article Technocracy now written by

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conservative Christian for a sympathetic audience.

176
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Article technocracy now summary

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Author’s description of modern conception of reality as individual subjectivity and scientific facts without regard to human nature

Morality, love, beauty (subjective)

Chemistry, biology, physics (facts)

The technocrats have no interest in ultimate goods (basic human goods), presumably since they don’t buy into natural law.

Technocrats reject the higher goods (religious) and raise up choice and autonomy as higher goods.

Technocracy as an alternate religion with each of us gods.

Author’s solution: local communities of the like-minded.

177
Q

Art that attempts to wake people up

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Brave New World, 1984, Demolition Man, The Matrix, Terminator, Orphan Black, World War Z

178
Q

Technocratic value system

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values the good of the system, has its ends

179
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Whats an alternatic system to techocratic value system ?

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Spontaneous order

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