There’s a meme doing the rounds: “The year is 2024. Your electric car won’t start for 48 hours because your status on social media was deemed too offensive.” What ridiculous, conspiracy theory nonsense!
Except that, like too many “conspiracy theories” today, it’s just a few weeks at most from being reality.
We’ve already seen New Zealanders’ bank accounts suspended because of their social media activity. The same happened in Canada. In Australia and Britain, people have been arrested and jailed for “offensive” social media posts.
It’s just the start.
The International Monetary Fund – that group of global elitists who unveiled their idea this year for a “Great Reset” of world economies through climate-focused socialism – have come up with another novel idea for the new world order:
Basing your credit score on your browser history.
A staple of dystopian science fiction has long been the paranoia that “they” could spy on your every movement and action. It’s no longer science fiction.
If you use social media (and often, even if you don’t) Big Tech knows nearly everything about you. Google tracks your location, what you search on their browser and watch on its YouTube platform. If you use “smart” devices, it literally listens to everything you do: I recently had the surreal experience of a device obviously listening to my family’s coughing, as a bug ran through the house, and offering up ads for cough medicine.
Equally as powerful, Facebook knows who your closest friends and family are, what you like, what groups you follow, what your closest-held beliefs are, who you vote for, and is pretty good at guessing your deepest secrets and dreams.
Naturally, banks want in on this digital access to customers.
Their supposed purpose is to offer “tailored financial experiences”, but as New Zealand and Canada have already demonstrated, it can also be used to punish and to modify behaviour.
Say they start noticing certain trends with their customers. Perhaps they notice that you bought a hotel room and a Trump flag on the day of a MAGA rally in your city. Perhaps they see that you’re into guns and have purchased an AR-style weapon in the past year. Maybe they see you’ve purchased books by Christian authors that decry a wholesale adoption of the LGBT movement. They might also see you disagree with the Green New Deal. Or finally, they might see you watch a lot of Pastor John MacArthur defying government lockdowns, or that you’ve pre-ordered Jordan Peterson‘s new book (no personal projection on this last one at all) […]
In the end, such a policy will financially penalize those who buy unapproved items, are connected to canceled people, or visit websites encouraging wrongthink.
People have lost jobs because online snoops snitch on something they said or did online five years ago. People are denied services for the same reason. Some employers are demanding access to people’s social media accounts as part of their hiring process.
It doesn’t take much imagination to see what’s around the corner.
Want a car loan? Sorry, but you read that new story from the New York Post on Hunter Biden last week.
Need a mortgage to become a landowner? Sorry, you were reading a homophobic article yesterday about the biblical framework for marriage between one man and one woman.
Need to open a bank account? Well shoot, guess you shouldn’t have donated to that conservative politician or liked the status of a MAGA-hat-wearing friend.
Want that new job? Our apologies, but the employer saw your score was dinged by reading articles that challenged the sCiEnCe of mask mandates and/or climate change policies.
Not The Bee
These aren’t even conspiracy theories — they’re already happening.
It’s only going to get worse.
