Absolutely. Nothing on the internet is ever forgotten, and "they" will use it to hang you one day.
Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
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#62I've always used a pseudonym. I have never felt free to speak my mind on the internet under my own name, the cancel mobs scared me away long before the state did
Very much this. I also chose a different pseudonym from place to place. However, a bigger chill to my online speech is fatigue and ack of joy in participating online. I think the last place I felt community online was on Usenet.
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#63I lived in China for a while, and my wife is from China. We moved out almost 5 years ago, and she still was a bit freaked out about a picture of Xi Jinping's book next to Winnie Pooh book I took at a Book Expo here in Germany. Once you lived 1-2 generations with censorship, this gets from "chilling" (as in, you're aware of the thought but suppress it) to "not even thinking about it".
I don't know if it's a net negative on society, in the end in China people are very apathetic towards all of this, their lives are fine, they can get food delivered in 5 minutes, trains run on time, flying cars, and all that. Bread and circuses, bread and circuses.
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#64Surveillance? Somewhat. HR culture? Absolutely.
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#65I lived in China for a while, and my wife is from China. We moved out almost 5 years ago, and she still was a bit freaked out about a picture of Xi Jinping's book next to Winnie Pooh book I took at a Book Expo here in Germany. Once you lived 1-2 generations with censorship, this gets from "chilling" (as in, you're aware of the thought but suppress it) to "not even thinking about it". I don't know if it's a net negati…
being a third generation myself (parents and grandparents lived under a "regime"), as long as you tell them how it was for you, the kids might be the ones who will stop eating the poison bread and tell the clowns to take off their makeup
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#66Don’t forget COVID misinformation debates on free speech.
This is a deep topic which I’ve not given its due attention. But I have wondered about my likes and saves and chats on platforms such as Reddit.
This title of a webpage about says it all, “Read our full archive of Graham Platner’s deleted Reddit comments”.
Whatever you think about the former Maine US Senate Candidate, this type of published outrage goes hand-in-hand with his sibling “surveillance”.
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#69It's not formal institutions, it's the hate mob. And for things that might seriously attract the ire of people who consider political violence a positive good, there's always TOR.
ICE and the FBI are pretty formal institutions.
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#70A few years ago, you would've been banned for questioning the results of the U.S. election. And this was when "progressives" were in charge. If anything, you're more free to "express yourself" now.
You're free to express most things except the things they really don't like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSPM-7 Quote from the NSPM-7: > There are common recurrent motivations and indicia uniting this pattern of violent and terroristic activities under the umbrella of self-described “anti-fascism.” These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) as “fa…
> foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control)
Yeah, Tom Paine used to fucking rhapsodize about border control.
They actually wrote that?
Jeebus.