[ WP ] Every single day the world votes to kill off one person . Whoever receives the most votes that day is killed .

`` Friendly reminder: it is already 8 PM, do you want to vote now?'' - whispered a gentle female voice into my ear. 
 
 I shook my head, and my neural interface recognized that as `` no''. 
 
 `` Maybe later'' - the voice sighed politely, before continuing - `` and remember: you are free to vote anytime. A kill per day holds the tyrant away!'' 
 
 I had my own opinion regarding that matter but decided not to voice it. Being hooked into Global Cybernetic Matrix was not without its benefits, for sure, but far too often people were chosen for eradication based solely on what hackers managed to record them saying without them even knowing that. In the old ages when the technology was at its dawn, people had a choice to get off the grid by minimizing their contact with technology or simply being careful around it. But when 100 % of the population are cyborgs from birth when turning off your smartphone and wiping your hard drive is not an option anymore, you better watch your words. Of course, chances that you casually say something outrageous enough to become the next one in `` Midnight Line'' while somebody is listening to you is minuscule, but it has happened before. And that's what scares me the most: that while I live in an age of total freedom where I'm allowed to say and browse whatever I want I do not feel free at all. 
 
 Of course, that was the intention behind the cybernetic revolution: that the introduction of a global system that links all the people, `` Internet 3.0'' as they called it, would allow the creation of a perfect self-regulatory society. the governments and many other social and political institutes became obsolete: why would you need to regulate someone if everyone's actions were regulated by everyone? The economists of the past turned out to be right: the unobstructed flow of information did create equal opportunities for everyone. 
 
 You see a crime taking place? Share it with everyone and vote for the killer. Your boss tries to fuck you over? Record your feelings and emotions to share them with everyone and vote for your boss. Is your government crooked? Vote for your president. Vote, vote, vote, choose the worst one among you and at midnight his neural computer will send one million volts into his brain. 
 
 Of course, we could n't go without the Government, and since we went global then we had to choose someone who could keep up. And who's better to overlook 12 billion cyborgs then an A.I.? A perfect, incorruptible one-mind government that works for the greater good. Someone does not agree? That's the sign of tyranny and usurpation born right there. Better vote for that candidate! 
 
 So yeah, I never share thoughts, feelings or emotions. Even if I'm free to do so. 
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 I was told that this prompt is the premise of one of the new episodes of `` Black Mirror'', so please tell me if it's anything similar. Never watched it. 
 
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