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Only an idiot will think all of this is about "illegals"; this is a whole infrastructure of mass surveillance and "rogue" police. They might be after specific t
by tamimio 10mo ago
Only an idiot will think all of this is about "illegals"; this is a whole infrastructure of mass surveillance and "rogue" police. They might be after specific targets now, but once it's fully normalized, you are next. From data collection and aggregation, the invasive surveillance like Flock and Ring, the use of AI and apps, it's being carefully planned and rolled out for such a mission. There should be a platform to track the people who worked on building these technologies and apps. I would never trust or hire someone who has no morals and worked and spent hours making ELITE app or Flock Android systems or similar; these people are the enablers for such surveillance and should be held accountable.
- bdangubic 10mo agoif you go by “morals” every FAANG employee (current and previous) would need to go plumbing school
- Altern4tiveAcc 10mo agoFair enough, they had (specially their executives and the engineers working on ad tech) a negative impact in the world as well.
- wan23 10mo agoGiven the choice, end users choose free or cheap and ad supported over full price in huge majorities. You have to weigh "I don't like ads" against 200 million (!) people on Netflix's ad supported plan and how much enjoyment they get that they might not otherwise. Not to mention things like Google that are ad supported and genuinely useful. In the real world things have pros and cons.
- upboundspiral 10mo agoI used to buy this thinking, but no longer. People are incredibly resourceful, and instead of innovating towards exploiting and manipulating people, we could choose to innovate towards conserveration of important things, just like we have done in the past. We don't fund out national parks with advertisements. We don't fund our libraries with advertisements. We could create the same structures for the internet as well, where crucial internet resources are protected and stewarded. They don't necessarily need to be in the hands of ad companies. Sure, I will not deny that having things be "free" (and paying for them in other ways) has been a huge boon from one perspective, but we can also evolve to put "free" things in different places. Because things are never free. Advertisements are funding mass surveillance. They are encroaching our civil liberties and normalizing it. There is a total cost to things that extens beyond money. What we don't pay out of pocket we pay as a society.
- kahrl 9mo agoSome demons are worse than others. Take your defeatist attitude, and shove it up your ass.
- bdangubic 9mo agoouch I hit a nerve, ha? sorry about that and watch your language :)
- kahrl 9mo agoPeople like you act like you have moral superiority because you can "maintain professionalism" in the face of people having completely normal reactions to your behavior. Frustrated, bewildered, and insulted at how terribly dense you are. :) edit: Added the little patronizing smiley face at the end. Eat shit.
- falloutx 10mo agoIf the government can track illegals who haven't interacted with government for 40 years and track them down to their house, you can imagine how fast they can track a tax paying citizen.