This is just one small step in the multi-decade implementation of mass surveillance.

“In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.”

“We’re already scanning all of your files for X. Why don’t we also scan them for all other crimes, A-Z?”

Statistical models and inference are mathematically guaranteed to have false positives and false negatives. False positives in this context mean entirely innocent people will be flagged and scrutinised, and have their private data shared, or potentially be investigated, when they have done nothing wrong at all. If fingerprints are one in a 1 million, and you have a database of a billion people, on average you’ll implicate ~1000 innocent people every time you run a print. That’s how you end up with millions of people on a watchlist. It’s criminally incompetent, at best.

We don’t live in East Germany. We’re supposed to be living in democracies where our governments act in our best interests, and our rights are not for sale.

They had this surveillance, on a far greater scale

This is a mentally-ill level of ignorance. The KGB or Gestapo couldn’t even dream of the surveillance state Western capitalism has already built. They didn’t have tracking devices and microphones in the pockets of most adults on Earth. They didn’t capture millions of data points about all of their daily lives. They didn’t have billion dollar economies structured around the capture and sale of that data. They didn’t have the ability to flag dissidents or resistance autonomously, in real-time based on statistical modeling, or the capability to execute everyone they flag as opposition with cheap fully-autonomous drones. This is called turnkey-totalitarianism. All the tools have already been built. The only thing a tyrant needs to do is turn the key.

Either educate yourself about the world or keep your ignorance to yourself. Your opinion is currently worthless.

Been meaning to try random Jellyfin plugins that sim tv channels.

https://github.com/binarygeek119/FinTV

https://github.com/DrewThomasson/JellyfinTV

The second one even does custom ads based on channel content. I would love a plugin that queries random retro ads off the internet. Like you’re watching Star Trek and get an ad for the SNES or Supersoaker when shows have scenes designed around commercials, or between episodes.

It’s almost like our institutions and political class across the developed world are acting on behalf of capital and not in the peoples best interests…

Maybe that’s why they all collude with surveillance capitalism to violate our civil rights wholesale, and expand the surveillance state…

These are not the actions of a government “for the people”. These are the actions of criminally corrupt tyrants and traitors who should spend the rest of their lives in prison. The fact that they won’t should tell you everything you need to know about our “democracies”.

This is so they can continue over investing in unproven technology.

The difference is that it was historically domestic capital pulling the strings and manipulating politics; unless you were being occupied by a foreign force (colonialism, etc). Foreign entities manipulating domestic politics and economics was generally considered an act of war.

Now we have multinationals wealthier than nation states, who have seized the means of democracy buy bribing our political classes, and not even domestic capitalists have any allegiance to their nation; just raw unmitigated greed, narcissism, and psychopathy in the name of profit and power. It’s a systemic mental illness.

What you’re describing is the theorised end state of capitalism. See crony-capitalism, state-capitalism, plutocracy, kakistrocracy, kleptocracy.

You can still own private property in a world that outlaws billionaires, requires strong redistribution of wealth, and ensures every large enterprise is democratic, instead of plutocratic. Reality is not binary. But if you don’t accept that the existence of an ultra wealthy elite is an anti-democratic threat to the life and liberty of everyone — to the rule of law and social contract — you’re gonna end up in an authoritarian fascist or communist hellscape run by megalomaniacal psychopaths who don’t care about you, cut from the same cloth as each other. You can either support things that benefit the majority, or boot lick the criminally corrupt. If you choose to lick the boot, don’t be a petty little bitch and complain when the world comes crashing down around you.

“I’m not anti-AI. I’m anti-capitalism, anti-authoritarian, and anti-psychopathy.”

You’d think that an entities senior leadership and investors being populated with openly corrupt, anti-democratic, mentally-ill, psychopathic, megalomaniacal, fascists and pedophiles would be a deal breaker, but most of the political class across Liberal “democracies” don’t have a problem with it.

If we lived in functional democracies most large multinationals would’ve been split up a long time ago, including Meta.

Instead we live in a grey area of plutocratic corporate dictatorship.

One you achieve a certain level of wealth, you can fail upwards forever, as long as you don’t bet it all. A few million invested can generate a decent yearly wage for life. A few billion can generate tens of millions a year, even at the worst rates.

When you’re at the Epstein classes level of wealth, you can lose billions without consequence.

Further evidence that most CEO’s and SLT’s are just confident, lucky, and born wealthy; not competent, smarter, or much better than average.

Google is already killing the ad revenue model of the web by presenting the content it scrapes with AI for search — effectively stealing their content for profit — instead of ranking links so users navigate to their sites. Many have ahead seen a 70-90% drop in traffic, resulting in a 70-90% drop in ad revenue.

Capitalism is a blast, huh? Crime is very legal and very cool!

This! Seriously, how does nobody understand fascism?

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Authoritarians and megalomaniacs have been in power all of human history, and people still can’t comprehend it, even when they themselves are exceedingly greedy and selfish.

Anyone who watches through this is a completely cucked simp. Might as well work for free, then bend over and take it from daddy.

With all due respect, that is the dumbest shit I’ve heard in a while. Congrats!

If you don’t pay attention to the world and don’t know shit about modern history you can simply say you don’t know, instead of asserting some fantasy where oligarch criminals could be rehabilitated by a negligible inconvenience because the proles have to do compliance training.

Are you comparing fraud to speeding, or agreeing that fines are not punitive enough to matter to corporations?

How many corporations have experienced fines that make them stop committing crime? Are they in the room with us right now?

It’s literal insanity how many people can’t see a consumer VPN ban as the logical next step. I swear most of the population have the critical thought of an NPC.

Seriously… If you commit fraud and lie to the government, you go to jail. A corporation does it and the fine is a fraction of a percent of their profits.

If this capitalist dictatorship shit — where sociopaths, psychopaths, and pedophiles collude with the government to defraud and exploit the people — is what Liberals consider “democracy”, Liberalism is a full blown cuck ideology that deserves to die as much as conservatism.