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Uh you mean since like, 2001?
And by US, the author means the world.
“Turning”?! “into”?!
ig neither the glowies, nor Snowden, nor Manning exist
Uh, do the kids these days really not know about the post-9/11 Patriot Act?
Well Obama ‘fixed’ it.
Made it even more draconian but called it the Freedom Act.
Shit like that works every time.
God I miss the pre-9/11 US, when the worst thing happening was bad jokes on SNL about Bill Clinton and cigars.
Now read some books and see how much Bill Clinton is directly to blame for most awful shit we’re dealing with today, and while you shouldn’t come to justify 9-11, you’ll understand its motivation correctly.
Bill Clinton and neo-libs like him is why we go right instead of left as a society.
We sent all our manufacturing capabilities to China.
Maybe not the best example.
At that time this sleezebag (and others with power) got away with a lot of sexual misconduct.
And in his case probably rapes.
Minimising it as him being some naughthy schoolboy and making jokes about is not really something I miss.I don’t want to downplay sexual misconduct, but the issues we are facing right now are orders of magnitude higher.
You will never find a perfect point it time where life is good for and harmonious everyone. The 90s had their problems, for sure, but the USA wasn’t tearing itself apart, or bringing in and welcoming in a new wave of fascism.
Is there a word for when the media is constantly like 3+ years behind with “warnings” like this? I mean Jesus Christ, turning into?
20+ years behind
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Every part of the world is. It’s not unique to the US. Laws need to be passed to stop this.
Yes. Unfortunately, these systems are also a great gift for any upcoming fascist regime (like the Trump junta currently) which will not only happily continue using the existing infrastructure but also extend it like mad.
Maybe humanity’s greatest weaknesses overall: the lack of foresight and the lack of wisdom learned from historic precedents (e.g. Nazi Germany? Forgotten by now). Everything’s always about short-term goals, ignoring any long-term disadvantages. See also: climate disaster.
That’s a capitalism weakness, not a human weakness though.
Same thing
Humans = capitalism ???
Bet you $500 that the next democrat president won’t tear down the system and will in fact give even more contracts to Palantir & co.
Palantir have been with every president since it’s inception. I once searched palintir, lotr 10+years ago, it was already well established by then
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wait US is putting surveillance on techno producers?
kinda been that way since 2001
Since a bit earlier or so I’ve read.
it’s already a surveillance state and both the red and blue party are complicit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disclosures
“Turning into” lol. The USA and all their partner countries like the ones in the 5 Eyes program have all been mass techno-surveillance states for decades.
The 5 eyes countries are not allowed to spy on their own citizens, but they can freely share data.
Isn’t there an obvious loophole here.
It’s almost like it was by design.
They also just spy on their own citizens anyway, because who is going to stop them?
Are these people retarded? Did they forget Edward Snowden?
Where are all the “nothing to hide” people now.
Probably realizing that Democrats can now trace who bought MAGA hats and they too have guns.
