So Facebook has patented digital identity theft.
Awesome
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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I was happy when the dead were just voting. /s
It'll sign government petitions like calling for an end to net neutrality.
Ok , that’s it. I think just leaving my account dormant isn’t enough. Deleting it is the only way. This makes me want to throw up
Zombie data mining shitposters will one day be the ultimate fate of all Web 2.0 users.
Your ability to accumulate data doesn’t have to die with you. Your friends and relatives can be spammed with garbage from you even beyond the grave.
Mikoshi was even housed in orbital data centers. How prescient is Pondsmith?
Ehhh, the idea predates Cyberpunk pretty well. Digital immortality was a theme in some sci-fi going all the way back to the 50s with Asimov's "The Last Question" (though that was more Matrix-style consciousness upload).
think it was a Black Mirror episode too
Awhile back someone on here suggested maybe we’re trying to implement all of the fictional dystopias at the same time, so per the theory it might be because of Black Mirror or that podcast that we’re doing this.
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Just like in the famous book "Don't create the torment nexus" — Bravo!
Imagine being the patent agent reviewing that
This was posted before and I'll say it again: if you want to shitpost from beyond the grave you do it your god damned self.
I'm assuming this is something someone who plans to die someday might opt into or even be asked to pay for as a posthumous service? To feed their living ego, knowing that their AI mockingbird will keep their social media persona "alive" indefinitely?
And of course people's zombie accounts will all have zuck's political opinions.
And lots of product placement/endorsements.
Who would want this?
Not only is that a shit idea but it also way to trivial to be a patent. Just one more example how broken the patent system is.
Yo that's fucked! Like fucked fucked bad man.