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Re: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

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There's a wide variety of positions between "open borders" and "forcibly take refugee children away from their families and put both in detention facilities". One can object to the latter without supporting the former.

Please name a crime where you are allowed to take your children with you when you're arrested.

Please name a misdemeanor crime that results in loss of custody of your dependent children on the first offense.

Re: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

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> If not Amazon, another company will do business with gov. Face recognition is mature enough, there is no very high barrier. Even if US gov doesnt adopt such technology, another gov will do. > It is just business. Guns are a mature technology, and pretty easy to use. If I don't do the hit for Vinny, some other hitman will, so I might as well make some cash. It is just business. The fact that someone else may perform…

gun is gun, please don't mix together. Face recognition doesn't attack people. I admit that someone might feel uncomfortable but it can protect you in another cases. (another privacy vs safety argument) Needless to say this technology can only deploy in public places. If someone appear in public places, why you think he would like to become invisible to all others. In the meanwhile, I agree that no gov employee can b…

> gun is gun, please don't mix together. Face recognition doesn't attack people. I admit that someone might feel uncomfortable but it can protect you in another cases.

Guns don't attack people either. There's a saying: "guns don't kill people, people kill people."

Re: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

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Stupid question. I actually am a big fan of no borders but what's wrong with this? Seems like America entering the new millennium. Edited also why was this downvoted?

I downvoted because open-borders is one of the stupidest mainstream ideas I ever heard. Right up there with flat earth. Of course you want to keep people that don't share your value system out of your country.

That statement is incoherent. I know for a fact that 90% of the population of my country don't share my values in a material way. I am perfectly happy sharing my country with them.

Re: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

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I am not an American and I obviously have no right to meddle in your affairs. But only today Trump tweeted out Obama being against immigration and then from their the rabbit hole went deeper and there was a video of gasp, bernie sanders calling open borders a "Koch brother" conspiracy. I'm beginning to wonder if anyone high up in America really has any integrity? I fail to see anyone who is consistent in their views…

You have every right to meddle in American affairs. This is the country of all people of the world. All people who value freedom and individual dignity. Decent Americans welcome everyone and want to help everyone because they realize it helps themselves to do so. It does no good for regular people to buy into these notions of separation. That notion is a tool for maintaining power. The underbelly of the world are the only ones who care about power for themselves. It's a disease.

Re: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

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Sure and while you're at it why not implement cameras all over every roadway to automatically ticket you every time you break the speed limit. Or better yet, why not devise a real time geolocation device to be embedded in cars and then lobby for it to be nationally adopted so people literally can't speed? The reality is that very few people want to live in that world and even if we do fully adopt technologies like th…

I agree in general but I think "A car traveling 30 mph is absolutely as lethal as a car traveling 10 mph faster than that." is a bit weak. The speed of cars matter, obviously. If you are hit by a car driving 50km/h you will die 8 out of 10 times. If the car is only driving in 30 km/h you will only die 1 out of the 10 times. In other words, it's not a linear scale and the idea that you can drive a bit faster without m…

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Re: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

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Please name a crime where you are allowed to take your children with you when you're arrested.

Requesting asylum is not a crime, so I'm confused by this request.

crossing the border illegally is

Re: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

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Sure and while you're at it why not implement cameras all over every roadway to automatically ticket you every time you break the speed limit. Or better yet, why not devise a real time geolocation device to be embedded in cars and then lobby for it to be nationally adopted so people literally can't speed? The reality is that very few people want to live in that world and even if we do fully adopt technologies like th…

Red light cameras are all over, and apps I can voluntarily install like Waze let me know if I'm going over the speed limit.

Re: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

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> bernie sanders calling open borders a "Koch brother" conspiracy. Quite right. It wasn't just that Bernie disagrees with open borders, in that video he is visibly upset. He really doesn't like it. (It was the Vox interview I assume, unless you saw another one) Also if you are old enough you might remember large anti-globalization protests around G8, Bilderberg and other such meetings. It is kind of baffling how just…

The left was the major source of anti immigration law until they replaced xenophobic labor laws with today's political reality

Why was this so downvoted?

Re: Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants

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I am not an American and I obviously have no right to meddle in your affairs. But only today Trump tweeted out Obama being against immigration and then from their the rabbit hole went deeper and there was a video of gasp, bernie sanders calling open borders a "Koch brother" conspiracy. I'm beginning to wonder if anyone high up in America really has any integrity? I fail to see anyone who is consistent in their views…

Also this is not meddling. Part of being a super power is out politics is world polifics . Keep asking questions

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