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ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools

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Re: ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools

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Post by steve-atx-7600 »

deadbabe wrote: post #2

These tools will just be used to gather evidence for character assasination to justify future killings.

I don’t think so. I think the administration will just keep declaring that X is a terrorist that obviously brandished weapons/threated ICE and it will be parroted by Fox News. Done. And who will stop them? No one. Republican office holders’ reelection is more important.

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Post by pjc50 »

steve-atx-7600 wrote: post #11
deadbabe wrote: post #2

These tools will just be used to gather evidence for character assasination to justify future killings.

I don’t think so. I think the administration will just keep declaring that X is a terrorist that obviously brandished weapons/threated ICE and it will be parroted by Fox News. Done. And who will stop them? No one. Republican office holders’ reelection is more important.

Yes, and: the propaganda machine will benefit from being able to automatically dig up the most "lib"-coded posts to use in their assertions that they were right to kill that person.

I wonder if this will stay up on hn; the site is very against mass surveillance but anything involving ICE gets flag killed.

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Post by october8140 »

I would encourage anyone working for companies that aid ICE to stop work and do everything you can as an employee. There is a real opportunity to do something. “I only worked for the company that provided cloud services” will be the new “I was just following orders.”

Is there a complete list? Palantir, Amazon, Salesforce, Microsoft.

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Post by slowhadoken »

hntechbropseud wrote: post #14

Second day in a row seeing a post like, it will be censored in 3 2 1 ... Can’t allow anything to get in the way of those yc startups seeking ICE contracts. The tech-bro elite need to make their $$$ assisting in hunting down modern day Anne Franks.

Well it’s weird because there are a 195 counties on the planet and they’re all, to one degree or another, negatively effected by illegal immigration because all countries require legal citizenship.

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Post by pastage »

Refreeze5224 wrote: post #5

Maybe this will finally wake up all the people working for, building, and and enabling ad-tech and surveillance capitalism. Probably not, but we can hope. You're not just an "engineer" for Facebook or Google at this point. You are enabling fascism.

Fascism is a slippery slope, maybe a political maelstorm everyone can be made to love it. The "first they came" poem is also a reminder that this are easier to see in hindsight. I think the strange turn the US took on human rights after 9/11, the media started to not only paint other groups as bad guys that you should overcome with force. The idea that any means necessary was allowed for a small win by torture, hacking or control. This idea that your power can be used against anyone just with a small connection to one bad person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

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Post by defrost »

slowhadoken wrote: post #16

Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t there 195 countries on the planet that all have legal and illegal immigrants? Also please keep in mind I’m a life long liberal that voted for Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders.

Not so many with the masked unidentified death squads though, at least not in the G20.

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Post by netsharc »

hntechbropseud wrote: post #14

Second day in a row seeing a post like, it will be censored in 3 2 1 ... Can’t allow anything to get in the way of those yc startups seeking ICE contracts. The tech-bro elite need to make their $$$ assisting in hunting down modern day Anne Franks.

It's fascinating to learn how IBM, Hugo Boss, or BMW could've been involved with the Nazis, by watching the present day: Just look at how Zuck, Bezos, Google's CEO were at the front row of the Trump inauguration and surrendered before even a fight, because hey, "I need to deliver value to my stockholders!", or in the case of Zuck I think it's more "Gotta make sure I stay in the 3-commas-club!".

Meanwhile there's a flagged to death comment about policing the border and illegal immigrants. Oh yeah, the 2 year old "illegal immigrant", he's out to take your job!

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