@e3eljuegas That's honestly one of the MINOR details in the setting.
Still, somehow even with that in mind, the empire literally named the Apocalypse Imperium is not as cartoonishly evil as IRL is becoming.
(granted, they're not meant to be evil at all, but still.)
Folks,
My fictional cyberpunk utilitarian pseudo-fascist religious-state empire ruled by an Eldritch Cyborg zealot has a law that everyone has a cybernetic eye so an AI can watch everything you do to warn law enforcement of potential criminal activity
IT’S NOT THIS EVIL SOMEHOW
BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.
Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.
The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.
That means:
• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed
All directly on your phone.
Governments and companies pushing these safety” systems already have a terrible track record protecting user data.
Last month, Europe’s new age verification app, promoted as a way to "keep children safe," was hacked in under 2 minutes.
In another case, over 70,000 IDs and selfies linked to online verification systems were exposed in a major breach.
Now the UK wants even deeper access directly inside your device.
Once governments force surveillance tools into every phone, they can expand what gets monitored at any time.
So despite the major breach in privacy, it SOMEHOW manages to be less evil than real life because they don't lie about it "protecting the kids" or its purpose, they aren't using it to silence freedom of speech, & they don't let an AI decide who gets punished.
Madness.
Big Brother is one of the most well defended AI's in the Imperium to keep it from potential compromising & tampering, & it will delete irrelevant footage over time.
It's not used to monitor people for control or thought policing, but genuine law enforcement to protect civilians.
@Grim_doc@theoceanblooms You literally can’t see anything down there. But even if you could correctly swim up to the surface, I don’t think there’s an O2 tank that would last you that long, even without Deus Ex Whale to gobble you up
@sylessae I
don't
know
Maybe my perfectionist mindset demanding it looks as good as I see it in my head
Or fear of putting in days of work for it to look bad (by my lofty expectations)
Or just general fear of never getting to the quality I wish to be
(Yes I'm aware that last one is folly)