alt Hacker NewsThis is a loyalty test. If you say SI you gain a loyalty point. If you say AI you lose a loyalty point. The government is forcing you to choose whether you posture yourself to align with the government or against the government.
This is a loyalty test. If you say SI you gain a loyalty point. If you say AI you lose a loyalty point. The government is forcing you to choose whether you posture yourself to align with the government or against the government.
And like many "loyalty tests", one of the goals is to abuse the cooperators too, forcing them to ritually scar their reputations and impairing their ability to make a new home elsewhere.
Authoritarians know coercion doesn't demonstrate real loyalty, their real goal is to (A) deprive people of choices and (B) get them to think it was their own idea.