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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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Post by colechristensen »

coliveira wrote: post #13
aliasxneo wrote: post #5

> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network. That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.

Scientology is essentially a scheme to get private/incriminating information from very important people. Why the surprise?

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.

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

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Post by srameshc »

erxam wrote: post #16
bigbuppo wrote: post #6

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.

I love this comment, I just couldn't ever frame it so well :)

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

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Post by sysguest »

coliveira wrote: post #13
aliasxneo wrote: post #5

> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network. That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.

Scientology is essentially a scheme to get private/incriminating information from very important people. Why the surprise?

damn I wonder how many scientology believers in intel actually believe in scientology...

I mean, it shows how much intel agencies can "screen for high intelligence individuals" ?

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

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Post by acidhousemcnab »

QuercusMax wrote: post #8
aliasxneo wrote: post #5

> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network. That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.

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

Any belief system or club that validates sociopathy as a "higher" state of evolution or enlightenment will worm it's way into intelligence agencies.

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

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Post by nikhilpareek13 »

Shalomboy wrote: post #14
shermantanktop wrote: post #9

Looks like a nothingburger? It's unfunded. An email describes a protest without giving a framing that the site would prefer. Then it turns out that nobody knows what it does, but it might do something bad. I'm all for transparency and accountability but my assumption is that the bad things being done by LEO and intelligence are far worse than this.

My take away from the article was that this likely isn't the only public-private intelligence network propped up by local PDs; that was pretty alarming to me.

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

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Post by marcosdumay »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #7
aliasxneo wrote: post #5

> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network. That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.

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.
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