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Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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So what you're saying is that everyone that works at Amazon and Facebook are now at grave risk because the bad guys now think they're informants?

You've got the good guys and the bad guys mixed up. No Meta "engineer" knows what morals or ethics even are, much less actually apply them in real life.

Come to think about it, the one person I know that works at Meta is the absolute worst person I know.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Scientology is what happens when a science fiction writer acts out a dystopian plot in real life instead of writing a novel. Read Stranger in a Strange Land , read about Hubbard and Heinlein's friendship, and look at the timeline of when Scientology started and Stranger in a Strange Land was published.

That may be true however today it is 2026 not 1961, LRH fell off the earth in 1980, and it is feasible that after the raids in 1977 and/or upon gaining tax-exempt status in 1993, some sort of deal was cut with the US state/intel apparatus to co-opt the church for another purpose

No, shady deals and intel capture fits perfectly fine with the original dystopian novel in the real world.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Reminder if you work for any of these companies (not unlikely on this site) you are actively enabling this. If your first reaction is doubt, deflection, rationalization or discomfort, there are ways out.

Or perhaps when Amazon facilities security encounters someone doing destructive or harmful things, then sharing that information with other companies in the city is a perfectly reasonable measure?

This is functionally no different than sharing your encounters with disruptive people on NextDoor.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Scientologists being involved with intelligence agencies doesn't surprise me even a bit, it makes a lot of sense as a CIA cutout.

Those weirdos followed me around Ybor near Tampa when I said something negative about them online in public. IT WAS WEIRD! But I gave no Fs

Man, I wish something like this would have happened to me when I was younger and spunkier. For years, I've had so many scenarios planned in my head for how something like that would play out! Even today, I might not just ignore it even though my propensity to give fucks has waned over the years.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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4chan validated in their protests against Scientology was not in my bingo card.

For people like me who had no idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology

That was amazing. I once witnessed a protest like that, in Hannover Germany I think. The idea of 4chan people actually going up the stairs and out of the house into the open air and talking to people, like with molecules and sound waves and all that stuff, it still blows my mind.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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4chan validated in their protests against Scientology was not in my bingo card.

At this point I'm waiting for the aliens appearance in the Epstein files.

At this point I'm waiting for the aliens appearance in the Epstein files.

There was an front page article about aliens and American pedophile leaders in the most recent issue of The Onion.

I don't see it online. Maybe it takes a while for the dead tree stories to appear there.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Reminder if you work for any of these companies (not unlikely on this site) you are actively enabling this. If your first reaction is doubt, deflection, rationalization or discomfort, there are ways out.

If you work for any company, you're actively enabling injustices against someone, so just make a living and don't worry so much.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Reminder if you work for any of these companies (not unlikely on this site) you are actively enabling this. If your first reaction is doubt, deflection, rationalization or discomfort, there are ways out.

If you make open source used by any of this companies for this network, would you also characterize it as actively enabling this? If your retirement fund owns stocks of the s&p 500, does that make you an enabler? Are there really ways out?

> Are there really ways out?

Not with that attitude

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