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If using the application for its intended purpose makes your account seem not-human, just who or what did they design the application for?

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For entities whose behavior fit their model, it's called negative selection[1], a mandatory attribute of emerging dictatorship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_selection_(politics)