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Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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You can look up terrorism incidents in the US [1]. Far right extremism is far more likely the reason for terrorism in the US vs far left extremism. In recent years, 115 far right attacks vs 19 far left (from 2008 -> 2016). And that's with adding another category for Islamic terrorism (63) (which, in and of itself would be far right terrorism.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States

The FBI has a great track record of successfully thwarting Islamic terrorist plots that it creates:

https://www.salon.com/2010/11/28/fbi_8/

https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/fbi-manufacture-plots-te...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/magazine/fbi-internationa...

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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Hardened Firefox and https://searx.me/ are great to.:)

How does one harden Firefox? What's there beyond Tor browser and/or noscript?

it is like regular Firefox but really hard to install. It will also kill you if it crashes

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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It's difficult to win in an SEC governed market that is corrupt by design. You'd need a competitive advantage large enough to bridge the SECs designed corruption in the market.

What does this even mean? That it’s difficult to make your stock go up because the SEC has rigged the market? Read through Tesla’s history with the SEC, specifically Musk being immature and committing securities fraud on Twitter. They’ve fined him and the company, and there is no love lost between the two, but TSLA is still going up.

One could argue that's the problem: They got a slap on the wrist instead of crippling punishment for illegal behavior, and there are companies that may be farther in the electric vehicle game than they are today, because they didn't employ a grandiose, law-flouting CEO to prop up their stock.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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I made the switch from DDG to Startpage.com the day when Bing/DDG censored "tank man" results on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, haven't looked back. I do miss the !bangs, so I have a browser shortcut to access those when I need them.

You're talking about the "tank man" that was safely escorted out of the scene without getting harmed? What about him? https://youtu.be/qq8zFLIftGk

He risked death to protest the oppression of Chinese people by the Communist government, brutal oppression the Communist government has spent decades trying to cover up. The brutal actions at Tiananmen Square and the surrounding areas--and the consequent coverup--are something we all disapprove of and abhor.

He may have survived, but many others did not. You can find the photos of their corpses online if you're outside the Communist regime's censored, dishonest, pseudo-internet.

Only commenting so younger people don't think your comment has any merit or honesty.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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I still see significant issues with using the threat of finicial repercussions and criminal charges to force dirty executives to comply with illegal efforts to spy on their customers. This is problematic not just because of the violations of those customers' rights, but also because it creates perverse incentives for the government to encourage the success of dirty tech companies as means to circumvent constitutional…

> still see significant issues with using the threat of finicial repercussions and criminal charges to force dirty executives to comply with illegal efforts to spy on their customers I do too. We just have no evidence this happened.

> We just have no evidence this happened.

Any evidence regarding that was suppressed by the judge due to the possible revealing of classified information. This sort of suppression is precisely my objection as it effectively allows the government to operate with impunity.

I don't claim to know if the claims were true, I just think they should have been assessed in court.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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I'm not a Constitutional scholar, but I would bet SCOTUS rules this kind of warrant illegal. Google certainly has the resources to take the case that far. AFAIK a warrant usually is tied to a specific person or a specific crime. In other words, if an explosion killed Harry McHarryface, then it would be constitutional to ask for names of people who searched for Harry. Or if the fertilizer used in the bomb was shown to…

Does the current administration follow SCOTUS rulings? Edit: why am I being downvotes? The president explicitly stated his plan to ignore another SCOTUS ruling

>why am I being downvotes? The president explicitly stated his plan to ignore another SCOTUS ruling

People only think executive overreach is cool as long as they can ignore the downsides.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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I'm not a Constitutional scholar, but I would bet SCOTUS rules this kind of warrant illegal. Google certainly has the resources to take the case that far. AFAIK a warrant usually is tied to a specific person or a specific crime. In other words, if an explosion killed Harry McHarryface, then it would be constitutional to ask for names of people who searched for Harry. Or if the fertilizer used in the bomb was shown to…

Does the current administration follow SCOTUS rulings? Edit: why am I being downvotes? The president explicitly stated his plan to ignore another SCOTUS ruling

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Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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You can look up terrorism incidents in the US [1]. Far right extremism is far more likely the reason for terrorism in the US vs far left extremism. In recent years, 115 far right attacks vs 19 far left (from 2008 -> 2016). And that's with adding another category for Islamic terrorism (63) (which, in and of itself would be far right terrorism.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States

>19 far left (from 2008 -> 2016) And after the summer of 2020, the number for the far left should easily be in the thousands. We'll have to wait to see how that gets recorded.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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The only sensible solution is to name JS and CSS frameworks using the keyword list.

There was a free to play FPS game called "Dirty Bomb" (made by Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory's Splash Damage). Always felt a little weird googling that name.

Re: Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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Correction: the suspect was holding an object resembling an improvised explosive device when he was fatally shot.

Correction: the police forces that intervened reported how the suspect was holding an object resembling an improvised explosive device when he was fatally shot.

Real life:

This bullet killed Vicki Weaver, who was standing behind the door in the cabin where Harris entered.[108] Vicki was holding the Weavers' 10-month-old baby Elisheba.

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

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