bigmonads

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by bigmonads 8y ago
I reject the accusation of "whataboutism". Let's take those in order. "Why have I made 5~6 comments in the thread?" It's an interesting topic that I've spent over 5 years researching. "Why are you tal
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by bigmonads 8y ago
I think the point of coldtea's comment is that: - We're being inconsistent with our criticism, unwilling to apply it as a universal standard - We're talking about others (Chinese) needing to rebel, blaming this on brainwashin
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by bigmonads 8y ago
False equivalence AND conspiracy theory? Lol. In order... "False equivalence": Nope, not saying they are equivalent. "Conspiracy theory": Nope, read the reporting on the Snowden documents, fusion centers, legal cases inv
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Definitely. Remember when the Snowden documents disclosed the Utah facilities keeping ~5 years of every communication record of every person, processed into the most actionable metadata, and the related capabilities to search and correlate
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Looks like.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
China could probably go much further. In America, you're shut down and surveilled for demanding systemic changes to the system (just try to build a movement in the United States for a change of government; see where that gets you). Muc
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by bigmonads 8y ago
China's population was 1.386 billion in 2017. Do you mean 10% of the subpopulation pertinent to the region?
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by bigmonads 8y ago
I'd genuinely love to hear your analysis of the American surveillance state.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Next headline "America Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Chinese, Chinese Report Says"
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by bigmonads 8y ago
I mean, I wouldn't trade my life for almost any other life - even a life of greater wealth and power. But to take the point you've made and work through its conclusions: Hacker News skews heavily privileged male high-income engine
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by bigmonads 8y ago
The cartoon at the top of this article (squinty eyes, fatty short figure) makes me uncomfortable, as it edges pretty close to old racist depictions of Asians and Blacks from half a century ago. That said, the article itself takes a negative
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by bigmonads 8y ago
In the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Controversy_and_cr... > Among the complaints about the No Fly List is the use of credit reports in calculating the risk score. http://time.c
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by bigmonads 8y ago
See also: DoD's online propaganda-at-scale research, and the AI techniques behind https://www.darpa.mil/program/social-media-in-strategic-comm... One of the key focal points of the DoD's research is the ident
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by bigmonads 8y ago
That's amazing. I always assumed that the Hajj to Mecca was the largest.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
If you read the reporting on the subject, you'll learn it is from government pressure. I agree with you, and think its endemic of the app ecosystem.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
It mentions it in the article. Supporters keep putting it back up and Apple continuously takes it down (under pressure of the US gov). For context, the app was created to track human rights abuses during the disclosure of the US's cove
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Reminds me of Apple's censorship of US assassinations: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/538kan/apple-just... There's a reason why centrally curated platforms are dangerous, and why Free S
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by bigmonads 8y ago
As the author of the above comment, yes confirmed that is how I intended it.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Looking for them. I got this from following reports and dialogues from American Think Tanks (primarily the Center for Strategic and International Studies). Essentially over the past decade there's been fairly regular dialogue between t
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Here are some articles to get you started. https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/1209... https:&#x
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by bigmonads 8y ago
No, I don't think this understands my comment.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
It will. There's no false equivalence. https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te... But to the broader point: my comment was about much more than social scoring systems.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
The article misses the context of our generation, in which multiple Western and Eastern governments as an underlying trend have been exercising the same behaviors. Australia officially banned strong encryption for state surveillance this we
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by bigmonads 8y ago
I remember when Facebook censored my communications with friends and family about the Snowden documents, Bernie Sanders, and Mayday Protests. This was before the current trend of labeling the justification "Russian propaganda" - i
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by bigmonads 8y ago
It requires a small amount of context and history - and virtually no judgement. You may not like the Chinese or foreign governments, but hacker news isn't a place to express that bigotry.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Articles written in the US about the US military destroying cities to "save them" are always positive like this. Compare that to American media coverage of ISIS's "Management of Savagery" (e.g. https://ww
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by bigmonads 8y ago
This person is either lying or delusional, or got pranked really hard. The "details" provided, while they make great story, simply don't cohere with how the NSA operate.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Maybe: 1. There really was a supply chain attack, but Apple and AWS did not detect it. 2. Trump Administration staff worked with Bloomberg reporters on an domestic propaganda piece to expose the attack in a public way amid China-US trade wa
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by bigmonads 8y ago
Significant difference is that nuclear weapons are not deniable, bioweapons are. The United States (and allies) have already used rain seeding, river damns, and a number of other techniques for damaging adversary nation's economic and

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