Well so much for freedom of speech! I really don't know if this is good or bad, but I think this could be an encroachment into privacy. An App that can calculate the future? Well science is going wild again.. Lols
Now read the following:
Well this isn't good news for civil disobedience in Russia. The country’s Centre for Research in Legitimacy and Political Protest claims that it has developed a computer program that will sift through social media websites every five minutes looking for signs of organized political opposition.
If it finds something suspicious, it alerts law enforcement officials and others via a mobile phone app.
The Russian site, Izvestia (via Google translate) says that illegal activity and unauthorized actions, according to Russian law, includes: Meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets.”
The software — dubbed Laplace’s Demon after Pierre-Simon Laplace’s theoretical all-seeing intellect that could calculate the future based on the state of all matter — pays particular attention to social media groups known to organize such rallies and monitors the number of likes and reposts.
In this way, it can anticipate when momentum is building and alert the authorities. Anyone caught participating in such unlawful activity as free speech will be fined up to about $600 (30,000 rubles) or sentenced to 50 hours of community service.
Trust me if this happens in Naija some people may as well sell their I-pad, bb, android, tablets, laptop, palmtop and buy Nokia 3310 instead just to stay out of temptation.... *Wink*
Credit: news.discovery.com
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