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Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by rsynnott »

JuniperMesos wrote: post #687
phatfish wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most users here are American, have you seen what is happening in America? The funny (sad) thing is all the hot takes about the UK or Europe being a "police state" because porn is being blocked for kids, or persistent abuse on social media actually has repercussion (as it does in the real world already). Meanwhile ICE are murdering US citizens in the streets. Turns out American "free speech" doesn't prevent an authori…

Lucy Connolly was imprisoned for about a year in the UK for posting an inflammatory anti-immigration social media post which was deemed illegal under UK law, and is currently being threatened ( https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2157938/lucy-connolly-pris... ) with being returned to jail for posting social media content attacking the current UK government. This is hardly the only example of the UK, or other Anglophone…

Can’t even incite murder anymore without being put in prison; it’s political correctness gone mad!

There is no country in the world where inciting arson of housing counts as free speech. The UK has actual problems with free speech (particularly the Online Safety Act), but this isn't one of them.

In whatsapp:

> She said that if Ofsted were to get involved, she would tell them it was not her and that she had been the victim of doxing

Bit more crime, there (she worked in a regulated industry around kids; lying to the regulator isn't allowed).

> She went on to say that if she got arrested she would “play the mental health card”.

PLEASE STOP SAYING YOU WILL DO CRIMES.

(I'm always amazed that so many criminals end up having these incriminating conversations on WhatsApp and similar; have they never read the news or watched any crime drama? In a vacuum she'd probably have got off!)

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by tordrt »

jayGlow wrote: post #438
throw0101c wrote: post #336

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Every single one of the tens of millions of people who have illegally immigrated to the United States over the past few decades is a criminal who can be legally deported. There are an estimated 100K illegal immigrants in Minnesota,[1] and about 2M in Texas.[2] With 900K in Florida, 350K in Georgia, 325K in North Carolina, etc . [3] Why doesn't ICE concentrate on fishing where the fish are… but of course that would…

they are arresting and deporting people in Texas I'm under the assumption that they can perform more than one task at a time. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-houston-arrests-more-3...

Of course they can perform more than one task at the time, the question is why have they started prioritizing Minnesota? Which dont have a lot of illegal immigrants.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/2000-federal-agents-se...

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by datsci_est_2015 »

hwguy45 wrote: post #674
mikeyouse wrote: post #636

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ICE isn’t auditing Medicaid FFS. And no, there’s absolutely no evidence they’re getting access to Medicaid. They’re single mindedly looking for undocumented immigrants to deport.

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Are you being sincere with this comment? I’m in disbelief you could post this with good faith, but this forum requires me to respond to you with the assumption that you’re posting in good faith.

First of all, the investigation for the fraud had already wrapped up years ago, with many charged. You’re falling for the propaganda that this was ongoing and swept under the rug, as pretense that apparently an occupying force is necessary because Somalians are fraudulent criminals (racist AF), despite the incredible amount of fraud (including Medicare fraud!) within the ruling party at the moment.

Second of all, the ringleader was a white woman who was convicted for this fraud, presumably preying on desperate immigrants, maybe even convincing them that “fraud was the American way”, I mean look at the president - how could fraud not be the American way?

Third of all, that YouTuber has a less than room temperature IQ, and was going around to closed daycares to prove that… they weren’t open? The rightwing grift is so powerful and so lucrative that this absolute imbecile can make it big by giving other imbeciles a justification for their deep-seated racism. Honestly, go listen to interviews with this guy. It’s astounding that anyone trusts any content he puts out, because that’s just what it is - content, not investigative journalism.

Anyway, I guess since some Somalians were involved in fraud we get to occupy cities, tearing anyone brown with an accent away from their family, maybe allowing them to prove citizenship (maybe not), and begin shooting anyone who adds friction to that process (civil disobedience)? That’s the implication of your comment.

Tell me when we can start prosecuting fraud when it’s attached to an (R), by the way.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by rightbyte »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #592
sgc wrote: post #515

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If I were extremely cynical, I would suspect they might have intentionally falsified that response to make it seem like they were more naive than they actually were.

I think its their currently targeted ad demographic or whatever. Its probably a "meaningless" label to humans, but to the computer it makes more sense, he probably watches the same content / googles the same things as some random person who got that label originally, and then anyone else who matched it.

Yeah somewhat like "likes football" might just be a proxy for "male".

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by callamdelaney »

kjellsbells wrote: post #240

FWIW, people here illegally are already not eligible for Medicaid, [0] so it's hard to see why ICE having access to a roster of Medicaid enrollees would help them with their stated mission of enforcing removal orders. Then again, we have ICE shooting American citizens in the streets, so I guess the law is whatever they decide it is, not least because our legislative branch is uninterested in laws. https://www.congres…

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Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by callamdelaney »

newfriend wrote: post #697
kjellsbells wrote: post #240

FWIW, people here illegally are already not eligible for Medicaid, [0] so it's hard to see why ICE having access to a roster of Medicaid enrollees would help them with their stated mission of enforcing removal orders. Then again, we have ICE shooting American citizens in the streets, so I guess the law is whatever they decide it is, not least because our legislative branch is uninterested in laws. https://www.congres…

They're also not eligible to be living in the US, yet here we are.

The key issue wilfully ignored by the mob.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by datsci_est_2015 »

ljsprague wrote: post #722
fendy3002 wrote: post #710

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if there are massive frauds, DOGE should've revealed that. The fact that people keep spewing no investigation while there should be several times shows how ignorant people is.

DOGE would have found everything.

This comment doesn’t provide enough context for us to infer what you really mean. You should provide a second clause saying, “if …”.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by datsci_est_2015 »

matwood wrote: post #758
andy99 wrote: post #73

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> less coverage or discussion than a new version of jQuery Pretty sure this is a feature not a bug. Most people aren’t here for political topics.

> Most people aren’t here for political topics. There was a time when SV and technology eschewed politics, but that time is long gone. You only have to look at how often all the big tech CEO's end up at random Whitehouse events to see how they are intimately intertwined now.

There has always been politics in SV, this is a weird rewriting of history.

Presumably there’s so much pushback now because people are quite uncomfortable having to confront the fact that they may be the bad guys (even though they were probably the bad guys years ago as well).

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by phatfish »

mike50 wrote: post #632
phatfish wrote: post #384

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Most users here are American, have you seen what is happening in America? The funny (sad) thing is all the hot takes about the UK or Europe being a "police state" because porn is being blocked for kids, or persistent abuse on social media actually has repercussion (as it does in the real world already). Meanwhile ICE are murdering US citizens in the streets. Turns out American "free speech" doesn't prevent an authori…

Many people in the UK were detained or interviewed by police for protesting Israeli actions.

Yup, I called out Israel/Palestine.
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