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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Re: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Post by nozzlegear »

KnuthIsGod wrote: post #6

How long before they come for Hacker News ? Folks, it is now time to delete anything you posted here that might be construed as remotely critical of ICE or Trump. A court order will not help you if ICE have already shot you dead.

If Trump's going to throw me in his El Salvador gulag for being a deep state Soros-backed neoliberal globalist shill on HN, I'm going to make sure somebody in his regime at least has to read my bullshit first.

Re: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Post by dagi3d »

madaxe_again wrote: post #14
KnuthIsGod wrote: post #6

How long before they come for Hacker News ? Folks, it is now time to delete anything you posted here that might be construed as remotely critical of ICE or Trump. A court order will not help you if ICE have already shot you dead.

Man, they can fucking blow me. If you start censoring yourself because of potential consequences, you’re complicit. Sooner a dead lion than some kind of shabby boot-donkey.

Fearing the consequences doesn't make you a complicit but a victim. Sure there will be people who will take a more brave/difficult stance, but can't blame others for not doing so, we don't know they'd put at stake.

Re: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Post by pesus »

nostrademons wrote: post #30
comrade1234 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I swear many years ago you could delete old posts but not any longer. About all you can do now is do something so egregious that they delete your account.

You've always been able to delete for 2 hours and then the post becomes effectively permanent, modulo emailing dang to get it deleted by an admin.

Have they stated the justification for this anywhere? You'd think a site that brands itself as being for hackers would value its users having control over their comments/privacy.

Re: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Post by Herring »

Reminder that the most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such measures (eg welfare, healthcare, unionization, redistribution etc) is usually low among Americans.

Re: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Post by Alupis »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #40
KnuthIsGod wrote: post #6

How long before they come for Hacker News ? Folks, it is now time to delete anything you posted here that might be construed as remotely critical of ICE or Trump. A court order will not help you if ICE have already shot you dead.

[flagged]

> They have released 2% of the epstein files

3,500,000 pages[1] have been released, including 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.

If this was only "2%" of the files, you're alleging there's 175,000,000 pages of documents. Absolute nonsense. That's not even realistic. Not to mention nobody but the government knows how many pages are in "the files" - anything else you see is just made up.

> Im not a conspiracy theorist at all... murder of hundreds or thousands of girls and 1 year old babies

laugh out loud...

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-publishes-...

Re: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Post by jmclnx »

lokar wrote: post #9
KnuthIsGod wrote: post #6

How long before they come for Hacker News ? Folks, it is now time to delete anything you posted here that might be construed as remotely critical of ICE or Trump. A court order will not help you if ICE have already shot you dead.

Or, adjust your priorities and resist more. Authoritarians win when people let them.

Plus in Nov or 2026, get out and vote, no matter how hard it is to get to the polls. This happened because people sat on their behinds and did nothing in Nov 2024,

Re: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Post by idle_zealot »

Herring wrote: post #44

Reminder that the most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such measures (eg welfare, healthcare, unionization, redistribution etc) is usually low among Americans.

Apparently something like 30% of Democrats (voters, not representatives) now identify as "Democratic Socialists." I assume this is because it's what Bernie and Mamdani call themselves while advocating for the above mentioned measures. The establishment Democrats will fight like hell to stem the tide, but there does seem to be increasing support for these populist policies among liberals.

Re: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Post by organsnyder »

dagi3d wrote: post #42
madaxe_again wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man, they can fucking blow me. If you start censoring yourself because of potential consequences, you’re complicit. Sooner a dead lion than some kind of shabby boot-donkey.

Fearing the consequences doesn't make you a complicit but a victim. Sure there will be people who will take a more brave/difficult stance, but can't blame others for not doing so, we don't know they'd put at stake.

You can be both complicit and a victim.

Re: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

nostrademons wrote: post #30
comrade1234 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I swear many years ago you could delete old posts but not any longer. About all you can do now is do something so egregious that they delete your account.

You've always been able to delete for 2 hours and then the post becomes effectively permanent, modulo emailing dang to get it deleted by an admin.

I believe that, even within that two hour window, you cannot delete if anyone has replied to it.

You can still edit it to say "[deleted]" or something, though.

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