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ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

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Re: ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

dredmorbius wrote: post #140
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Moderators don't flag content, members do Moderators are ultimately responsible for moderation. The moderation system is failing when it comes to technology issues with a political tint. (In contrast, it has been pretty good with rage bait foreign policy stuff. Genuinely good discussions around quality content.) If folks are bandwagon flagging content with a consistent bias, the system should shadow ban their flags…

And mods do step in, but the mechanism for drawing their attention, as I've noted, and as the HN Guidelines note ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >), is email. Not long HN threads about abysmal moderation.

Sure. I'm saying it's fair to say this system is showing signs of failing in the current context. That's in part due to people not emailing mods. But that requirement is one that's controlled by the moderators.

Re: ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

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Post by asacrowflies »

rpjt wrote: post #70
miltonlost wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some other other people: "i can't tell the difference between rotten apples and fresh oranges. therefore all fruit is shit." But which one do you think is accurate? Here's an article to consider, where ICE broke into an apartment building without warrants to arrest citizens and children. Does this sound like Gestapo tactics or no?: https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-...

It doesn't matter what I think. The reality is most people who voted, voted for this or something like this. This will only change at the ballot box, assuming you believe in fair elections.

This is not a direct democracy but a constitutional republic. I don't care if 99% of people WANT this. If they can't follow the proper process and laws then it's treason or war at this point.

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Post by asacrowflies »

Dig1t wrote: post #100
rockercoaster wrote: post #92

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> Willing to work for less than an American, but somehow doesn’t drive wages down for Americans. Yeah, they obviously do. That's plain bullshit. .... ooooon the other hand, we've never tried having an economy without them. We didn't meaningfully limit migration from elsewhere in the Americas until like the '50s, and at the time beginning such enforcement was controversial because we already used them for a ton of che…

>Yeah, they obviously do. That's plain bullshit. Well heck, I see an awful lot of people on the internet trying to argue that they somehow don’t drive wages down for Americans. The number of foreign born people living in the USA is at an all time high, over 5 times larger than what it was in the middle of the last century. Being able to throw cheap labor at a problem is a crutch that keeps people from having to innov…

The city with a Spanish name.... Has Spanish speakers. THE HORRORS IN THE CITY OF ANGELS. lmao

Re: ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

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Post by dredmorbius »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #141
dredmorbius wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And mods do step in, but the mechanism for drawing their attention, as I've noted, and as the HN Guidelines note ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >), is email. Not long HN threads about abysmal moderation.

Sure. I'm saying it's fair to say this system is showing signs of failing in the current context. That's in part due to people not emailing mods. But that requirement is one that's controlled by the moderators.

What suggestions would you have to improve the situation?

Re: ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

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Post by SergeAx »

MandieD wrote: post #32

Yeah, that's some Gestapo level business... or since they don't like that word, Stasi. As in, there were loads of people in the DDR (East Germany, 1949-1989) whose job it was to read people's personal mail, along with the network of neighborhood snitches.

Since the current US admin is right-wing, Gestapo is a correct term, whether they like it or not.
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