Beyond how other people are pointing out this is usually racist and a voter suppression taxtic, this also misses the point of voting.
The point of democracy is as an alternative to violence. The idea that we talk to, and listen to, each other instead of making demands with spears of guns or whatever. Cut people out of the process and they turn back to spears or guns or whatever else, literate or not.
This wouldn’t be needed if people had somebody to turn to who would explain to them what would be their best option.
Like a priest?
I’ll be honest, I’m blanking on the third amendment.
It’s because it’s largely moot in modern times - it basically prohibits soldiers from being quartered in private homes.
So basically to stop an army from overrunning a property, evicting owners/tenants and declaring it a barracks.
Needs text alternative.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can’t explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
The loss of web connectivity is an acute problem for the commenters on here who seem oblivious to Nick Fuentes.
- usability
Republicans: “The literacy test is easy” The test: solve the following with proof of work The goat graising problem
This is the ‘reading literacy test’ for black people to go to school all over again, which for those unaware, had no answer key.
Just because a bunch of racists did it for racism doesnt mean no one else can try similar things for different reasons
I agree it is certainly easy for it to be manipulated in that way.
But.
This has to fucking stop. These morons will literally MURDER US ALL FOR PROFIT because they can convince the uneducated it would be funny. That’s not conducive to a functional society. If you let every single person vote no matter how braindead and out of touch with reality, this is what we get. Decades of manipulation and voting for the worst people imaginable to undermine every single institution that was built up through blood sweat and tears.
It was not as dangerous before the mass manipulation capabilities of big tech. Now it’s a cancer.
The gang does voter suppression
Issue is that it’s too easy too abuse. There’s tons of precedent for it.
Another example of how the right abuses a tool that is not itself bad but the left will refuse to ever use the tool again.
Guess who won’t though?
Yeah, the people who choose the questions and answers and grade the results would need to be infallible themselves or whoever is currently in power could just filter out whoever they don’t like.
Oh, I know the answer to this one!
We’ll just have AI grade the tests!
Surely putting Microsoft, Meta and/or Google in charge of deciding who gets to vote could not possibly go wrong.
I said Infallible not Make-Believe-Impartial.
Sorry, best I can do is an over-marketed stochastic parrot.
As others in this thread are pointing out…
It sounds great; but would be more like :: Are you likely to vote for Dems, oh you failed… so sorry
If it was impartially administered, the idea might have some merit (with massive caveats). But the US is a country where gerrymandering and voter suppression are considered fair game, so you know it’s going to be an absolute travesty.
All 5 first amendment freedoms…
I’d imagine most people would do poorly there.
Spoiler tag if you want to test yourself. I’m gonna admit upfront, I totally forgot #5 was in the 1st Amendment.
spoiler
Speech
Press
Religion
Assembly
Petition the GovernmentUgh, had them all but the last one. That’s a sneaky one. And increasingly irrelevant…
RAPPS.
Religion, assemble, protest, press, speech.
Quite the opposite. That’s what lobbyists use to promote corporate/AIPAC/NRA interests among legislators.
For power lobbying groups, sure. Not so for the average person.
Yeah that’s true. That’s why politicians hold $5,000 dollar a plate fundraiser dinners to keep out the “riff-raff.”
The plate is just an excuse, it’s just money laundering.
Not every election, people would eventually figure out to get more than 2 parties to compete too!
