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I'm glad this is on Lemmy.
Reddit would put you on a list, send it to DHS, and give you a 3 day ban...just for up-voting.
People are posting this kid on Reddit a lot right now, various art tributes and the like.
A lot got removed right away, but they keep up the ones in more mainstream subreddits so that people can see an equal mixture of right-wing hate as support. There's all the usual "You can tell this kid was raised by a liberal, look how emotional he is!" boomer lines and blatant attacks on his weight and every bit of hate you would expect in even distribution between supportive comments.
Reddit as an entity is working very hard to cultivate a simulated social experience, about 10% - 15% of users aren't even human, about as many posts are actually ads, and you can get shadowbanned without notice for reasons they will never explain, and that shadowban can be carried across affiliated google sites like youtube.
They want to create a landscape where they can adjust the knobs and change people's perceptions of reality at a whim or at direction from corporate interests. It's very easy to make people believe the sky is green when you can make people have an individually tuned experience of going in a popular discussion and seeing everyone say how stupid you would be to believe the sky is any other color but green, you will literally doubt your senses. Our species is vulnerable that way, we need to stop using the internet for socializing, it's going to ruin everything we've accomplished for thousands of years.
Ummm... It would be very easy for DHS to just run a random fediverse instance to ingest all the content for analysis. It's not as bad as reddit and IG working with DHS directly, but don't count on the fediverse to keep you off any government list, especially if you don't use VPN.
Why are you talking about reddit? Fuck reddit. What a shitty place to be.
That's what motivated me to make an account here. Reddit are fascist sympathizers.
Me too. Right now I'm in the middle of a 3 day ban for saying that any country that needs genocide to exist, should not exist.
I don't feel like going back after that one
I've collected two bans because I won't stop saying that fascists are an existential threat and should be treated as such without mercy.
Yeah, I'm on one for calling Trump a pedophile.
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Just like all big-tech
I often wonder if DHS is aware of the threadiverse. I would assume so but who knows? At least I don't think our admins would cooperate with them for the most part.
It's reasonable to assume the contents are being trawled in Utah, but most likely will only be looked at after trigger-words scare the AI in charge.
US law enforcement subpoenas data centers and servers often. For a physical server, the FBI will leave a windows sever running and gain access, if it is a Linux sever however, they will to confiscate the server. I'm not sure what they do for cloud hosted servers.
All the more reason to be on a non-US based server right now.
Worth noting that a lot of their subpoenas are BS though and could be fought successfully. Big tech is too scared to do even minor things to protect their users because the regime will retaliate in other ways that could cost them money. Small hobby servers don't have the same avenue of attack, although they might be more vulnerable in other ways.
This. I work for a tech company that unfortunately gets quite a few subpoenas, from little police departments to the letter agencies, and I have pushed back on subpoenas and warrants that I felt infringed on peoples rights and "negotiated down" the scope of them. If a company isn't willing to try and keep their users out of the legal crossfire they're cowards.
Call me naive, but I trust my instance. I don't even agree with everything it stands for, but I trust the admin.
A server in
.auis still part of the 5 eyes, so...True... I guess I'm not too knowledgeable about the situation in Australia. How would the US approach them and what legal avenues for resistance exist?
They're not a fascist government but they also don't seem to have the same free speech protections the US does. Not that that has helped us much,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
We can't spy on our citizens, we'll just ask our buddies to do it for us.
Spying is a bit different from being compelled to share data though. Probably everyone is vulnerable to secret surveillance, I'm not sure how to mitigate against that. But the information from such efforts will be more limited.