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Wouldn't an HN account need to be mentioned, once this platform is made visible enough, so that the bozos in charge, in the US, take it seriously? A social medi
by netfortius 10mo ago
Wouldn't an HN account need to be mentioned, once this platform is made visible enough, so that the bozos in charge, in the US, take it seriously? A social media ICE would love to dig into such.
- rsync 10mo agoI don’t consider hacker news to be social media… And I wouldn’t expect others to, either.
- perihelions 10mo agoFor what it's worth, HN is on ICE's list of surveilled sites (which it pays a tech contractor to crawl), https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/ https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co... ("The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring") https://archive.is/Lldzh https://archive.is/Lldzh
- bell-cot 10mo agoI'd bet the actual list of surveilled sites is far longer, and actually kept secret.
- workfromspace 10mo agoHere's the actual list from the article for anyone like me (404media has paywall and archive.is doesn't work from Baltics): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH4D_HHefoYxnbGL9l02kyCus https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH...
- SAI_Peregrinus 10mo agoWhy not? Anything where user interaction is a primary portion of the site's content is social media. The term "social media" predates algorithmically-driven parasocial feeds, though it does postdate things like BBSes and PHPBB.
- belter 10mo agoIf you have advocated for Linux you must be a communist....