From the who-needs-precogs dept.:
Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.
The scheme was originally called the “homicide prediction project”, but its name has been changed to “sharing data to improve risk assessment”. The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it “chilling and dystopian”.
They’re already signing with the USA. Before Germany? Idk.
Germany will be among the last to fall. They have some guardrails up for all the Reich reasons.
They have guardrails yes, but those are only a mildly effective stalling method. Fundamentally Germany is falling at breakneck speed too, so those guardrails will only be a mild inconvenience.
Having lived in Germany in the '90s and given current political winds, I don’t see AfD being able to get very far. Granted, this was the presumption of the NSDAP at first, and that didn’t go well.
But Germany has the benefit of “well, we done fucked up” that we do not in the states. Prior art has to be domestic to many voters, and we don’t have that.
Remember those AT&T ads from the '90s? “You will.”
We got all of those things and more. You know who didn’t bring it to you? AT&T.
Two crucial things have changed between the 90s and now, though: the standard of living and the number of immigrants (both real and as perceived by Germans). The former is obvious, and as for the latter between the 90s and now there have been multiple (American-caused European-enabled) refugee crises in Europe due to the influx of Middle Eastern people fleeing war. This has made Germany go haywire, counteracting any advantage they may have had on the anti-fascism front over Americans—who are for the most part already used to having Others in the same environment as the Self.
This sort of disdain for an Other is the indicator for fascism, and it’s very much on the rise in Germany.