Will online diaries ever be required?

Wouldn't it be easier to exploit and prosecute individuals if each of us were required by law to keep an accurate online diary?





Why hasn't this tool been used yet?





Is the government asleep at the wheel? Why is it taking so long for Brave New World to finally become a reality?





Our famous national mantra, "If you have nothing to hide, you wouldn't mind _____________." seems to me the perfect reason we should all be required to keep personal records available for scrutiny by business, government, churches and other criminal elements.





Nothing should be discrete. There is no place for privacy, in a transparent world. Secrecy is cancer.

Will online diaries ever be required?
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Reply:Not practical.





For one thing, you'd have to have universal literacy. That's never been achieved, anywhere.





Second, how would all that drivel be verified? What would it cost to do that?





Going to do it with recorders, cameras and stuff? Who's going to pay for all that? Who's going to make sure everybody's got the equipment, knows how to use it, and that it's not broke?





Not practical.





As for Brave New World, that is a work of speculative fiction.





Speculative fiction, contrary to what is apparently a popular belief, is not usually considered a serious attempt to predict the future.





It is usually produced either strictly as simple entertainment, or often as allegory or satire or cautionary tale or some other form, intended primarily as commentary on *the present*





Luckily for filthy little snitch queens like yourself, there is a wonderfully practical alternative to your suggestion: the "Panopticon."





Which in essence is rapidly becoming a reality all around you, even at this very instant. Hope you choke on it.
Reply:How would they guarantee that your online diary was accurate? What would be the punishment if you forgot to write down, for example, "I got fuel for my car before work"? Would you go to jail if you didn't write stuff down? What would be the purpose? Would we have someone reading all 6 billion journals every single day? Do you think child molesters and murderers would honestly keep an accurate diary? How about the president? Don't you think that would be a matter of national security if he had to keep track of all the decisions he made in office? And what if bin Laden hacked the computers and discovered that we had located his hideout and were planning to bomb it at 0600 on a Friday? Do you think we'd actually succeed?





I don't understand at all how this could possibly be implemented.

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