Nazi 2.0: Indonesia Planning To RFID Tag HIV/AIDS Patients
Lawmakers in Indonesia's Papua province are about to pass a bylaw requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be tagged with RFID chips to track their whereabouts and behaviour.
John Manangsang, one of the lawmakers backing the new measure, explained the tags:
It's a simple technology. A signal from the microchip will track their movements and this will be received by monitoring authorities.If a patient with HIV/AIDS was found to have infected a healthy person, there would be a penalty.
What. the. fuck.
Nevermind the lack of condoms.
Nevermind the HIV/AIDS education that your government has failed to provide.
Nevermind the rampant promiscuity in your population, exacerbated by local rituals where some Papuan tribes swap partners.
No, punishing those who are victims of disease is totally the best way to handle this. This is straight out of the Nazi playbook, only updated with 21st century technology.
I'm seething with rage at the ignorance of these lawmakers, and Indonesia is definitely off my travel plans.
Indonesia's Papua plans to tag AIDS sufferers [Reuters]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, In the News, In the World, On Your Body on 25 November 2008
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agreed. appalling.
This is absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe anyone would think this is right, in any way what-so-ever. Some innocent person could be infected with the disease unknowingly and on top of that, be punished for it for the rest of their life...?
this is terribly ill-conceived. if you get a checkup and are found to have it then they implant that thing (in a terrible location)? ok so don't get checked and avoid getting the implant. that way you can continue screwing per usual without the horrible implant (and potentially infected)!
this will just scare people away from getting checked. I'm fairly certain this would have the reverse effect on the spread of HIV/AIDS.