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WCDT 4171-4175 (6 to 10 Jan 2020)
pendrake:
For comic #4175...
1. [Narrator voice]: May would realize her case was utterly lost when authorities found Roko's abandoned chassis plugged into a dirty internet router in a grimy back-alley. Scrawled upon the brick walls of the back-alley above her inert form was:
"NOT MY BODY. IT TOLD ME SO."
"NOT MY BODY. IT TOLD ME SO."
"NOT MY BODY. IT TOLD ME SO."
2. But yeah, for Roko, this is +1 step forward (4116-4117), and now -3 steps back. :(
Y:
As long this is not the version of the Three Laws as in Robocop.
Cheetaur:
"I see you are trying to hurt yourself, would you like help with that?"
Morituri:
Hmmm. If this sends Roko into a tailspin, there may very well be a liability lawsuit for mental/emotional damage worse than the lawsuit for physical damage Ooopsie-guard was trying to forestall.
Some years ago, I bought a laptop. I found the damn thing locked. I had to call the manufacturer and get a password, just so I could access the BIOS to install an operating system! I have never, and will never, buy another laptop from that manufacturer.
I can't begin to explain the ... at first shock, then disbelief, then sheer rage, this episode caused. I had bought the damn thing, it was mine, and yet some asshole out there had locked me out of it - before I even GOT IT. When I got over the disbelief that anybody would do such a thing and not expect to be sued out of existence, I was angry enough to chew bullets and spit nails.
And, in Roko's place, I would be even angrier. Some asshole out there made that decision for her, without consulting her, constraining her use of hardware that SHE DAMN WELL OWNS. The next thing to do, if she can hold it together, is to march in there and demand full control of her property, and if they don't want to give it to her she should damn well sue their asses off. And if she can't hold it together, that makes the lawsuit all that much bigger.
Is it cold in here?:
Informed consent is missing. She might well have agreed to that feature if she'd been given a chance (though something tells me she's the type to turn it down). Instead it was sprung on her without notice.
I can't help reflecting, though, that I've got the same kind of override installed on my own biological hardware without my permission. It's less polite, too. Pain reflexes are powerful things.
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