DoomsdaysCW<p>Ihre Papiere, bitte. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> Accounts to Apply for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Citizenship</span></a> </p><p>Trump is demanding social media handles for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenCard</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/visa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visa</span></a> applicants whether they're already in the U.S. or not. </p><p>by Matt Sledge, March 23 2025, </p><p>"President Donald Trump’s administration wants to force people in the U.S. applying for green cards or citizenship to fork over their social media handles, in a move with far-reaching implications as the government cracks down on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProPalestine</span></a> activists.<br> <br>"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USCIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USCIS</span></a>, which oversees naturalization and immigration, earlier this month proposed requesting social media names from people in the U.S. who apply for asylum, permanent residency, or naturalization, expanding a policy that used to only target people living abroad applying for visas. </p><p>"The proposal references Trump’s day-one executive order laying the groundwork for a new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MuslimTravelBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuslimTravelBan</span></a>, which also asked federal agencies to identify <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> in the U.S. who hold '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HostileAttitudes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HostileAttitudes</span></a>” toward the government.</p><p>"'This policy would disparately impact <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Muslim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Muslim</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arab</span></a> applicants seeking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USCitizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USCitizenship</span></a>.”</p><p>"The shift would affect an estimated 3.5 million people per year — some of whom have lived in the U.S. for decades.<br>In light of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protester</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a>’s ongoing detention, one official from a Muslim civil rights group said the new policy poses special danger for critics of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> and the Trump administration. </p><p>"'This policy would disparately impact Muslim and Arab applicants seeking U.S. citizenship that have voiced support for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a>,' said Robert McCaw, director of government affairs at the Council on American-Islamic Relations. 'Collecting the social media identifiers of any potential green card applicants or citizens is the means to silencing their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawfulSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawfulSpeech</span></a>.'" </p><p>Original article:<br><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/23/trump-immigrants-social-media-citizenship-green-card/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/03/23/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-immigrants-social-media-citizenship-green-card/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/nYlTX" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/nYlTX</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrother</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrotherIsWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrotherIsWatchingYou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigTechBrosAreWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTechBrosAreWatchingYou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online<br> <br>ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.</p><p>by Sam Biddle, February 11 2025</p><p>"Amid anger and protest over the Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of immigrants, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to monitor and locate 'negative' social media discussion about the agency and its top officials, according to contract documents reviewed by The Intercept.</p><p>"Citing an increase in threats to ICE agents and leadership, the agency is soliciting pitches from private companies to monitor threats across the internet — with a special focus on social media. People who simply criticize ICE online could pulled into the dragnet.</p><p>"'In order to prevent adversaries from successfully targeting ICE Senior leaders, personnel and facilities, ICE requires real-time threat mitigation and monitoring services, vulnerability assessments, and proactive threat monitoring services,' the procurement document reads.</p><p>"If this scanning uncovers anything the agency deems suspicious, ICE is asking its contractors to drill down into the background of social media users.</p><p>That includes:</p><p> 'Previous social media activity which would indicate any additional threats to ICE; 2). Information which would indicate the individual(s) and/or the organization(s) making threats have a proclivity for violence; and 3). Information indicating a potential for carrying out a threat (such as postings depicting weapons, acts of violence, refences to acts of violence, to include empathy or affiliation with a group which has violent tendencies; references to violent acts; affections with violent acts; eluding [sic] to violent acts.'</p><p>"It’s unclear how exactly any contractor might sniff out someone’s 'proclivity for violence.' The ICE document states only that the contractor will use 'social and behavioral sciences' and 'psychological profiles' to accomplish its automated threat detection.</p><p>"Once flagged, the system will further scour a target’s internet history and attempt to reveal their real-world position and offline identity. In addition to compiling personal information — such as the Social Security numbers and addresses of those whose posts are flagged — the contractor will also provide ICE with a 'photograph, partial legal name, partial date of birth, possible city, possible work affiliations, possible school or university affiliation, and any identified possible family members or associates.'</p><p>"The document also requests 'Facial Recognition capabilities that could take a photograph of a subject and search the internet to find all relevant information associated with the subject.' The contract contains specific directions for targets found in other countries, implying the program would scan the domestic speech of American citizens.</p><p>"The posting indicates that ICE isn’t merely looking to detect direct threats of violence, but also online criticism of the agency.</p><p>"As part of its mission to protect ICE with 'proactive threat monitoring,' the winning contractor will not simply flag threatening remarks but 'Provide monitoring and analysis of behavioral and social media sentiment (i.e. positive, neutral, and negative).'</p><p>"'ICE’s attempt to have eyes and ears in as many places as we exist both online and offline should ring an alarm.'</p><p>"Such sentiment analysis — typically accomplished via machine-learning techniques — could place under law enforcement scrutiny speech that is constitutionally protected. Simply stated, a post that is critical or even hostile to ICE isn’t against the law.</p><p>"'ICE’s attempts to capture and assign a judgement to people’s ‘sentiment’ throughout the expanse of the internet is beyond concerning,' said Cinthya Rodriguez, an organizer with the immigrant rights group <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mijente" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mijente</span></a>. 'The current administration’s attempt to use this technology falls within the agency’s larger history of mass surveillance, which includes gathering information from personal social media accounts and retaliating against immigrant activists. ICE’s attempt to have eyes and ears in as many places as we exist both online and offline should ring an alarm for all of us.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/11/ice-immigration-social-media-surveillance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/02/11/ic</span><span class="invisible">e-immigration-social-media-surveillance/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/msvDC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/msvDC</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICERaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICERaids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrother</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrotherIsWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrotherIsWatchingYou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIBigBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIBigBrother</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIProfiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIProfiling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechnoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a></p>
@autstander<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigbrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigbrother</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigbrotheriswatchingyou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigbrotheriswatchingyou</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.dn.se/ledare/demokratier-har-byggt-upp-en-overvakning-vardig-ddr-med-trump-ser-vi-kanske-problemet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dn.se/ledare/demokratier-har-b</span><span class="invisible">yggt-upp-en-overvakning-vardig-ddr-med-trump-ser-vi-kanske-problemet/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The War on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Masks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Masks</span></a> Has Taken on a New Meaning</p><p>This time, the masks have nothing to do with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a>.</p><p>By Henry Grabar<br>Feb 05, 20254:57 PM </p><p>"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'</p><p>"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'</p><p>"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.</p><p>"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> advocates, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalJustice</span></a> reformers, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthCareWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthCareWorkers</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a> groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.</p><p>"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthCarolina</span></a> Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BanPublicFaceCoverings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BanPublicFaceCoverings</span></a>, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtesters</span></a> with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/felonies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>felonies</span></a>. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unmask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unmask</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a> this year.</p><p>"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthDirectives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthDirectives</span></a> and make it easier to arrest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/demonstrators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demonstrators</span></a> at the same time.</p><p>"In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KuKluxKlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KuKluxKlan</span></a>, but had been ignored or suspended during the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeFloydProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeFloydProtests</span></a>. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ADL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADL</span></a>] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KKK</span></a> tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.</p><p>"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philadelphia</span></a> banning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SkiMasks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkiMasks</span></a> in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrianThompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianThompson</span></a> by a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaskedAssassin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaskedAssassin</span></a>, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoFaceNoCase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoFaceNoCase</span></a>.</p><p>"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.</p><p>"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceReformers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceReformers</span></a> observed that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaskBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaskBans</span></a> have often been used for pretextual <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> and racial profiling against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a>. (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtlantaGeorgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtlantaGeorgia</span></a> tabled a mask ban for that reason.)</p><p>"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a>, streaming video, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/doxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doxing</span></a>. Last year, the anonymous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProIsrael</span></a> website the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanaryMission</span></a> posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.</p><p>"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be <br>'targets' for their alleged involvement in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> initiatives at work.</p><p>"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/business/2025/02/mas</span><span class="invisible">k-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AuthoritarianRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuthoritarianRule</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrother</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrotherIsWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrotherIsWatchingYou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.au/@Linux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Linux</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a></p><p>Exactly.</p><p>I"ve been recommending this ever since <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuckerberg</span></a> collaborated with the FBI.</p><p>Further, all US corporate social media employ many former CIA and FBI employees. 1)</p><p>Remember: what's legal today might be illegal tomorrow, even retroactively under authoritarian rulers, e.g. abortion, pharmaceuticals, same-sex marriage...<br>And: the internet and the agencies never forget.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigBrotherIsWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrotherIsWatchingYou</span></a>...better than ever before.</p><p>1)<br><a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-ex-fbi-cia-officials/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook</span><span class="invisible">-twitter-stocked-with-ex-fbi-cia-officials/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeOrwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeOrwell</span></a>'s book <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NineteenEightyFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NineteenEightyFour</span></a> is available online via the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetArchive</span></a>!</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/GeorgeOrwells1984" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/GeorgeOrwe</span><span class="invisible">lls1984</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwell</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DystopianFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DystopianFiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrotherIsWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrotherIsWatchingYou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectronicSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronicSurveillance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
LilyoftheRally<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://babka.social/@hauntedhideaway" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hauntedhideaway</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nineteeneightyfour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nineteeneightyfour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigbrotheriswatchingyou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigbrotheriswatchingyou</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Double plus ungood!</p><p>Elon Musk Fought <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GovernmentSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentSurveillance</span></a> — While Profiting Off Government Surveillance</p><p>Musk made hay of his legal battle against secret surveillance but continued selling X user data to a company that facilitates government monitoring. </p><p>by Sam Biddle<br>March 25 2024</p><p>"While national security letters allow the government to make targeted demands for non-public data on an individual basis, companies like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dataminr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dataminr</span></a> continuously monitor public activity on social media and other internet platforms. Dataminr provides its customers with customized real-time 'alerts' on desired topics, giving clients like police departments a form of social media omniscience. The alerts allow police to, for instance, automatically track a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> as it moves from its planning stages into the streets, without requiring police officials to do any time-intensive searches."</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2024/03/25/el</span><span class="invisible">on-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Activists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrotherIsWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBrotherIsWatchingYou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigTechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTechBros</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigTechBrosAreWatchingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTechBrosAreWatchingYou</span></a></p>
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