Bold of them to name a new social media platform after a dystopian novel about a totalitarian panopticon state, and only permit users who have verified their identity. #W
![We is set in the far future. D-503, a spacecraft
engineer, lives in the One State,
[4] an urban nation
constructed almost entirely of glass (presumably to
assist with mass surveillance). The structure of the
state is Panopticon-like, and life is based upon
Frederick Winslow Taylor's principles of scientific
management. Society is run centrally by a power
known as the Benefactor, and is run according to a
strict timetable-people march in step with each
other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring
to people except by their given designations
(referred to as 'numbers' in the novel.) The society
in which We is set uses mathematical logic and
reason for its scheduling and as justification for its
actions.
[5][6] The individual's behaviour is based on
logic by way of formulae and equations outlined by
the One State.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/933/640/587/165/335/original/547c9fe2ee64c14f.jpeg)
Bold of them to name a new social media platform after a dystopian novel about a totalitarian panopticon state, and only permit users who have verified their identity. #W
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