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   1. Zach Leatherman 21 min later

      What is your goal with this mentality

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2. Zach Leatherman 18 min later

   I’m reminded that Meta provided Facebook Messenger messages to law enforcement and helped put this Nebraska woman in jail for two years: www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1...

   Think about what Meta could provide to law enforcement with private web browsing activity.

   1. Lukas 55 min later

      The thing is this is really dangerous once those in power no longer follow previously established values of society.

      1. Lukas 1 hr later

         Imagine a hypothetical fascist regime coming to power, tracking messages or websites visited by dissidents. It could quickly identify and suppress them—through threats like deportation—before any legal process could intervene, as fascism involves the forcible silencing of opposition.

         1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

            it’s a good thing facebook and palantir have no affiliation… wait

         2. Lukas 1 hr later

            Eyewitnesses (such as my late grandmother) still use the verb „abgeholt” – en: „picked-up“ – to describe Nazi arrests. This contrast highlights how routine and chilling the repression was ~90yrs ago : people vanished as easily as one might now be “picked up” for dinner.