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      I really think they’re just saying the dumbest shit possible so trump looks good.

      Another one of those chucklefucks said they were going to fire every federal employee with a SSN that ends in an odd number.

      A legit ~50% reduction in the government based on a random metric with no thought given to consequence or if the government would even still function.

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    “When I get into office, the first thing we have to do, social media companies, they have to show America their algorithm,” Haley said during an interview with Fox News Tuesday. “Let us see why they’re pushing what they’re pushing.”

    When they deliver a list of network nodes, interconnections and weights, I’m not sure it will answer her question.

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      Didn’t Twitter have an “isElon” right in the middle of their algorithm? And didn’t they only partially release it?

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      In a bunch of useless formats afters years of back and forth because the government can’t define what it actually wants in concrete technical terms.

      That said I am for what they are asking for here (specifically transparent algos). Hopefully they can get someone like Mozzilla hired to actually handle it.

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    First they came for the discord profiles with cropped Judy Hopps porn and i said nothing

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      If she was serious, she might recommend randomized checkpoints where police officers stop you, force you to unlock your phone, and then check for unapproved social media accounts in applications and browsers.

      Otherwise, this sort of censorship would only apply to people without the technical knowledge or cash to use a VPN.

      But hey, we love our small government Republicans, don’t we folks

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        It’s a tool to oppress dissent.

        Realistically, you can’t enforce the law, but if you find an anonymous account for anything on someone’s phone or laptop, you can easily arrest or fine them.

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          It’s because if someone says a mean thing about them or their views online, they want to be able to identify them and direct stochastic terrorism towards them.

          They want to go back to an America where even though a shit ton of white people hated the KKK, no one would say it publicly because then you were their biggest target as a “race traitor”.

          Because that’s the only way to get people to stop pointing out how mind-blowingly stupid their ideas are.

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      Create laws for social media sites to validate identity or force them through something like login.gov with il2 verification. More and more federal services are starting to use them for managed identity.

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      Great question!

      A National internet ID of course!

      it might be called a Crypto-quantum-cyber-safety-passcode and you’ll need to use it in any site that collects and stores data about you. It will be for your safety!

      /s
      
      Speaking of...
      
      Has it ever been explored to pen a modern day update similar to , or to  the constitution (amendment)?
      
      (It would add new things) which could  prevent future stupid laws and the encroachment of individual privacy and how other entities can collect, store, use and sell one's data and metadata they create. It would also avoid wasting of resources..
      
      
      I'm sure there are other modern things today that the founding fathers could never  have imagined at the time  - but you better believe they would have included if they had the slightest idea!
      
      The tough part is that it would need to be well thought out and reasonable (and practical) 
      
      
      Otherwise, it will always be a knee jerk defensive reaction to all this nonsense all the time. It's exhausting and a waste of $
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    Natinal security threat bc the old, orange not-a-billionaire, asshole, with big toddler feelings, need to know who is making fun of him for retribution if he wins reelection

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    Cancelling and/or doxxing everybody even slightly opposed to the party line will become commonplace.

    Speaking your mind out in the open requires bravery I sadly do not possess…

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      Just look what they did to MLK. Discredit by any means necessary (what is totally legal but socially taboo, or even better, a smear that will stick), and if that doesn’t work…

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    Nimarata Randhawa, using a pseudonym Nikky Haley wants people to use their real names? interesting…

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      You think this particular issue doesn’t have full bipartisan support among the elites?

      You’re delusional

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        Thinking “both sides are the same” is everybody’s first political revelation. There’s far more to learn after that, and if you genuinely believe both parties have identical stances on privacy, you haven’t been paying attention.

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        Correct. The snakes at the top play both sides against the middle, and while everyone is distracted by the puppet show, they do whatever they choose. Classic high level deception. Divide and conquer. Sadly most privacy bros don’t understand basic psy-ops and the art of war and deception.

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    Cool, so I’ll just use a VPN with an exit node outside of the grasp of the US. Problem solved.

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    Something something „Land of the free“…

    Republicans are Soviets. Not communists but Soviets. They want to abolish freedom, and they want Putin in charge of the USA.

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      At the last point, I don’t think its as much an idolization of Putin, but conservatives want a strong leader who isn’t a scared little bitch or a weak Alzheimer’s patient.

      America does better under strong leadership. If you want to limit the presidential power, enact proper safeguards and don’t elect people like Trump, who, while strong, is not a good human being.

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        But Trump and the Repubniks do cuddle up to Putin. That’s how the name „Moscow Mitch“ came to be. I cannot wrap my head around this: Putin was/is a literal soviet. How can you call yourself a conservative and not hate Putin? Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire. It should be regarded as un-american to, for example, question support for Ukraine. As for the „strong leader“ part: If so many of you really want that, you could just have kept King George III. Instead, the gem of the ocean made tyranny tremble everywhere. As a European I feel like we are experiencing a successful infiltration operation where American society is being turned against everything its country once stood for. Good luck with that. God bless you.

        • I’ve never heard that nickname. In any case, I’m not saying I like Vladimir Putin. I’m not saying I liked Trump. I like the idea of a strong leader who will work with other nations, but not roll over and take shit either.

          There’s nothing wrong with carrying a big stick, but nowadays everyone has forgotten the first part of Roosevelt’s sentence… “Speak softly, but carry a big stick.”

          In other words, let your actions speak for you.

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    She’ll have more success delivering on the promise of a pony and a blowjob for every American.

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      Giving a blowjob to every straight adult male in America (estimated 116.8M) with an average of 9 minutes and 30 seconds leaves us with 2,111 years of straight dick-sucking for any presidential candidate.

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        She can get help from Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor-Green, Tiffany Justice, and the rest of those Moms for Liberty cunts. Give 'em something useful to do besides trying to get books banned.

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    This is like one of those things republicans say during election season, then get back to doing nothing but funneling tax funds to donors.

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      Those book deals don’t finance themselves!

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    GOP trying to slow fascist creep on every front.

    Thankfully they fully telegraph every move outloud

    Problem is not enough of us pay attention or truly understand the encroaching facsim that is threatening democracy.

    This is your daily reminder to vote responsibly in 2024.