alt Hacker NewsIt is a bad thing. The good response to bad actors abusing good faith is to make sure there are consequences that disincentivize that behavior in the future. Sliding further towards a low trust society means the bad actors winning in the same way that terrorists win when we subject everyone to restrictions as a result.
You don't slide into a low trust society though.
Quite the opposite. You just add a Wall with a Gate. Inside those walls, you suddenly have a high trust society again.
The issue that is currently breaking reality was that we thought that everywhere could be a "high trust" space. This was proven countless times to be wrong.
Tearing down all walls - as it happened with the assault on friction (thanks hyperscaling) - did not lead to the "high trust" spilling out, but the "low trust" spilling in, essentially.