Dystopian thought:

Imagine if in the future, it became mandatory to wear AR glasses, and to apply to each person the filters of their own choosing, i.e. you couldn't see them through your own eyes, but had to limit your perception of them to their desired way of being seen (because doing otherwise would be tantamount to denying their existence or some such)

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I agree insofar as forcing people to deny the observable reality around them is pretty dystopian.

But I would push back a little on the broader concept, in that we should have the right to selectively reveal ourselves to the world. In the same way we do with even basic constructs like clothing, or walls, doors, or curtains. They do to a certain extent create a distortion around us from the perspective of other people, but the alternative is far more dangerous imo. I think this applies to the cyber domain too.