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Anyone else notice a trend of cops spending way too much time on Social Media instead of going after actual criminals?
Its almost like their only purpose was always to create a panopticon effect, brutalize minorities to maintain an underclass, and protect capital.
Class traitors
I'd love to see cops admit that they're tracking corrupt politicians and CEOs, but that will never happen.
they might be.. so they have some dirt on 'em.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but it doesn't matter in our current society. We are even willing to vote for the billionaires who do the most heinous things
Cops just doing their job, protecting capital. Same as it ever was.
Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking Citizens Critical Of A New Unethically Developed Technology Used Against The Same Citizens.
I gotta wonder how much attention they pay to federated social media. Police have always had a mandate to serve the interests of property owners first, so it might be they’ll choose to pretend sources existing free of corporate patronage don’t exist.
It’s like talking to a Windows guy about Linux. They pretend it’s not what serious companies use, so all the cool OSS stuff is invisible to them. Ask me about how I taught an entire tech consultancy about Markdown files. They thought a good README was saved as a Word doc. Dumbasses.
I assume they are watching. As such, I consider it jarring when people comment things that are of a threatening nature. I assume that many of these are bait (e.g. "fedposting").
It’s probably some bait, but I think the majority is nearly legitimate. People post a lot of stupid shit on the Internet. Look at all the morons who post threats and pics/vids of criminal behavior on Facebook, under their own name.
I also can’t fathom the amount of data they have to sort through. There’s real people in the places they say they are, the fake accounts claiming to be in one nation but are across the world, bot farms, and the weaponized accounts of foreign countries trying to stir shit up abroad. I think this is part of the drive behind AI, law enforcement, as big and powerful as it is, genuinely can’t police the internet and quickly identify legitimate threats to its power. I’m sure they’ve made some advancements, they do have a robust surveillance state, but they can’t use it to the capacity they want. So in the meantime they hype the boogeyman but instead of a monster in your closet it’s a bunch of rats pretending they’re scarier than they are.
This is why I’m bullish that federated, encrypted, cellular trust networks are going to be such a critical tool. Discussing revolution on a monolithic service is easy pickings. Not so much when the service supporting the movement is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere.
The communication arms race will never end and if the worst comes to fruition, the simplest, closest methods will be key. It’s wonderful we can now network and chat with people on the opposite side of the planet, but when shit hits the fan that doesn’t mean much for most of us. I’ve been glad to see zines and slaps make a comeback. Best of luck trying to get your AI to figure out who’s dropping manifestos they punched out on a typewriter.
Ah, the literal thinkpol. Very cool, very nice
Your tax payer dollars at work!!
AI is not even entrenched in our society and it already gets full protection. We have to allow it and no regulations allowed without the federal government saber rattling.
This is beyond ridiculous. This has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with the corporatocracy ruling our lives.
"tracking" things they will do nothing about at least keeps the violent deadbeat cops off the street. I suggest they start counting the number of vowels in Nancy Drew and Hardy boys books, that would be another good use of their time and keep them busy. Whats that saying, "Idle cop hands do the devils work" I think.
They could also dig holes in fields and then fill them in. Or work on justice degrees at the local community colleges so they could learn to do their jobs professionally.
Whichever of their idiot supervisors told them to spy on Americans should of course be fired and prosecuted.
What even the fuck.
To Protect and Serve [government and corporations]
