The mass surveillance machine is still running. Every major company is completely integrated into the drag net, and of course every government agency is. Basically, EVERY major institution is spying on you in the same exact way toward the same exact end. Most smaller companies are well integrated too, on the basis of their use of major company's software products, and where there are gaps, they just leave their customer's data in AWS or what have you, as we keep seeing stories about.
Obviously the media machine is trying to scuttle their Facebook, my guess is that it's becoming too much of a liability with the free speech it enables, despite the rampant censorship. Anti-Facebook stories are being pushed is rapid succession, not just on Slashdot.
Basically a hideous leviathan is being crafted. Mass surveillance provides fodder for algorithms which program the media (which is extremely consolidated and controlled from the top down) which program the people addicted to media stimulation (everyone who doesn't know about the massive conspiracy (try not to be so triggered by that word)). Meanwhile no one wants to believe that the whole political charade is what it is: completely false, orchestrated every step of the way to divide the population, and no one wants to believe the levels of conspiracy binding every semi-popular media outlet together with the surveillance program the government controls.
TL;DR the "deep state" is almost every media outlet, every major company, every government agency, and almost every politician, all headed by the central bank and its members pulling the strings with the hideous top-down power they have over the markets.
TL;DR END THE FUCKING FED and watch the bottom fall out of this living hell.
You're totally wrong. As another poster said, the entrenchment factor is supreme here. Basically, people are stupid animals and they won't get out of their pen unless driven with cattle prods.
This is what the internet has done to people. They are literally animals.
At what point do you stop being such a complete moron and realize that the "unintended consequences" are actually the intended consequences? You're a coward. You're afraid to call it what it is. You want to say the government is incompetent as an excuse not to take action, when it doesn't matter what the intent behind the law is, the only thing that matters is the effect. The actions necessary to correct malice and incompetence are the same. You're just too afraid to take any action at all.
What is going on here? In reality it's simple. The masses realize that they have been victimized and they want to blame it on anyone but themselves (because what is or was popular among them theirselves can never be wrong according to their peculiar morality). Various institutions (government and corporate business) want to capitalize on this denial of guilt by supporting the delusion. That's what Mozilla is doing. That's Mozilla's entire business model, just as Facebook's is as an input device to the mass surveillance machine.
The ugly thing behind this all is the extremely lacking free will of the masses. Sanctimonious tech workers who essentially live in ivory towers preach self responsibility, but they fail to see that even in the sheltered bays in which they were born and raised the free will of the people is extremely lacking. People simply do not stand up for their own interests and are easily bought off by Consumerism. Society is failing completely. Plutotechnocrats are having everything their own way it seems. I wonder what it would take for you people to begin to have an idea of what is going on.
Because for most people, it never becomes an issue of questioning trust, the trust is implicit and any question raised is an annoyance. These sort of people far outnumber the pseudo-activist types like yourself, who somehow think that because they boycott a particular product, they are dealing a blow to "the bad guys" and somehow proliferating their view throughout society.
In reality almost everyone else doesn't give a fuck and never will without profound social upheaval. Your "activism" does nothing but change the views of a few friends and family and mostly just gives you an excuse to feel better about yourself.
There is no "we". That's just something you tell yourself to feel less lonely. In reality you have a great deal of work to do to form a collective. You can't just assume you inherit the collective you perceive yourself as belonging to. Like it or not, this is an attitude formed in 'echo chambers'. You've become a victim.
The public didn't figure out anything. Don't give them credit as such. The plutocracy decided it was worth it to cannibalize a portion of the failing facebook business to keep driving the wedge between the public.
It comes down to the ugly question of free will, doesn't it? How much of society's intent is a product of its education? I would claim that consumer demand is not a product of free will, it's a product of conditioning. Consumerism is a mechanism of slavery by addiction. People have basic desires from instinct. More complicated desires are shaped by their environment, which is controlled mostly by the plutocratic state.
You are right. Except that it was not really journalists that decided this change was necessary, it was their employers colluding with educational institutions.
Your response also seems to show the investment in VOA has worked - American exceptionalism continues, people keep acting like the United States doesn't have analogous programs, they keep acting like the extremely aggressive mass surveillance program (which absorbs EVERYONE's information, not just foreigners or targets of warrants (from secret courts by the way)) is being used for nothing other than 'national security'.
The United States and the whole western world rivals and (in many cases) exceeds the rest in "totalitarianism". It seems hard to go into depth about this problem without being silenced by downmodding as a "troll" - it used to be a topic of interest here.
Technology provides us with the possibility of OBJECTIVE insight and provides framework for OBJECTIVE verification (with mathematics). This is simply arguing for dystopia and forsaking a new Enlightenment, a new Renaissance, because "eh, it's too hard to care." Reputation is emotional and therefore non-objective. Animals can construct hierarchies based on reputation. We are human beings with all the tools to shape our reality. Why should we forsake our intellect for an animalistic way of life? Because it allows us to be controlled by whoever is at the top of the hierarchy dispensing reputation? This article, this idea, is poison.
mature citizen
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Yep, this is a propaganda stunt.
The message here is "blindly trust your favorite source, here's a falsely sophisticated argument for why it's okay for YOU, the smart he/she/xe/.... that you are, to do so". If listened to it could have terrible effect on society, especially if its effective on the "tech sector", the people who have pretty much the only jobs that matter in the "second industrial revolution", the people who have the power to contest the will of their employers and prevent dystopia. If the horrors that mass surveillance + AI + automation offer us are to be averted, it is YOU that are going to have to stand up, and in order to do so, you will need a philosophical grounding in order to coordinate your efforts with your peers.
This trash article is an attempt to subvert that grounding.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey dogfucker faggot, fuck you, that is a reason for violence, what other recourse do people have
also I'd fucking kill you in real life, no hestitation, you're a brainless piece of shit
Does the 'deep state' with its 'globalist' interests count as a foreign power yet?
Does the federal government count as a foreign power yet?
Because their interests probably don't align with yours.
Disney is 100% run by jews, after all
Maybe it's finally time to shelve your bullshit theory
The mass surveillance machine is still running. Every major company is completely integrated into the drag net, and of course every government agency is.
Basically, EVERY major institution is spying on you in the same exact way toward the same exact end.
Most smaller companies are well integrated too, on the basis of their use of major company's software products, and where there are gaps, they just leave their customer's data in AWS or what have you, as we keep seeing stories about.
Obviously the media machine is trying to scuttle their Facebook, my guess is that it's becoming too much of a liability with the free speech it enables, despite the rampant censorship. Anti-Facebook stories are being pushed is rapid succession, not just on Slashdot.
Basically a hideous leviathan is being crafted.
Mass surveillance provides fodder for algorithms which program the media (which is extremely consolidated and controlled from the top down) which program the people addicted to media stimulation (everyone who doesn't know about the massive conspiracy (try not to be so triggered by that word)).
Meanwhile no one wants to believe that the whole political charade is what it is: completely false, orchestrated every step of the way to divide the population, and no one wants to believe the levels of conspiracy binding every semi-popular media outlet together with the surveillance program the government controls.
TL;DR the "deep state" is almost every media outlet, every major company, every government agency, and almost every politician, all headed by the central bank and its members pulling the strings with the hideous top-down power they have over the markets.
TL;DR END THE FUCKING FED and watch the bottom fall out of this living hell.
You're totally wrong. As another poster said, the entrenchment factor is supreme here.
Basically, people are stupid animals and they won't get out of their pen unless driven with cattle prods.
This is what the internet has done to people. They are literally animals.
Talk to people in real life, you dumbfuck
fuck
But i totally already knew that
Doubling down every step of the journey down the drain
unintended consequences
At what point do you stop being such a complete moron and realize that the "unintended consequences" are actually the intended consequences?
You're a coward. You're afraid to call it what it is. You want to say the government is incompetent as an excuse not to take action, when it doesn't matter what the intent behind the law is, the only thing that matters is the effect. The actions necessary to correct malice and incompetence are the same.
You're just too afraid to take any action at all.
What is going on here? In reality it's simple.
The masses realize that they have been victimized and they want to blame it on anyone but themselves (because what is or was popular among them theirselves can never be wrong according to their peculiar morality).
Various institutions (government and corporate business) want to capitalize on this denial of guilt by supporting the delusion.
That's what Mozilla is doing. That's Mozilla's entire business model, just as Facebook's is as an input device to the mass surveillance machine.
The ugly thing behind this all is the extremely lacking free will of the masses. Sanctimonious tech workers who essentially live in ivory towers preach self responsibility, but they fail to see that even in the sheltered bays in which they were born and raised the free will of the people is extremely lacking.
People simply do not stand up for their own interests and are easily bought off by Consumerism.
Society is failing completely. Plutotechnocrats are having everything their own way it seems. I wonder what it would take for you people to begin to have an idea of what is going on.
we
Who the fuck is "we"?
Because for most people, it never becomes an issue of questioning trust, the trust is implicit and any question raised is an annoyance.
These sort of people far outnumber the pseudo-activist types like yourself, who somehow think that because they boycott a particular product, they are dealing a blow to "the bad guys" and somehow proliferating their view throughout society.
In reality almost everyone else doesn't give a fuck and never will without profound social upheaval. Your "activism" does nothing but change the views of a few friends and family and mostly just gives you an excuse to feel better about yourself.
There is no "we". That's just something you tell yourself to feel less lonely. In reality you have a great deal of work to do to form a collective.
You can't just assume you inherit the collective you perceive yourself as belonging to.
Like it or not, this is an attitude formed in 'echo chambers'. You've become a victim.
what are you even talking about, that is such an arbitrary and irrelevant determining factor
The public didn't figure out anything. Don't give them credit as such.
The plutocracy decided it was worth it to cannibalize a portion of the failing facebook business to keep driving the wedge between the public.
What I'm saying is this place is patrolled by intelligence contractor shills and bots, and that the site is directly run by the same
Why do they need to do that when they regularly plant child porn (or weapons) on whoever they feel like?
It comes down to the ugly question of free will, doesn't it?
How much of society's intent is a product of its education?
I would claim that consumer demand is not a product of free will, it's a product of conditioning.
Consumerism is a mechanism of slavery by addiction. People have basic desires from instinct. More complicated desires are shaped by their environment, which is controlled mostly by the plutocratic state.
You are right.
Except that it was not really journalists that decided this change was necessary, it was their employers colluding with educational institutions.
Your response also seems to show the investment in VOA has worked - American exceptionalism continues, people keep acting like the United States doesn't have analogous programs, they keep acting like the extremely aggressive mass surveillance program (which absorbs EVERYONE's information, not just foreigners or targets of warrants (from secret courts by the way)) is being used for nothing other than 'national security'.
The United States and the whole western world rivals and (in many cases) exceeds the rest in "totalitarianism".
It seems hard to go into depth about this problem without being silenced by downmodding as a "troll" - it used to be a topic of interest here.
Technology provides us with the possibility of OBJECTIVE insight and provides framework for OBJECTIVE verification (with mathematics).
This is simply arguing for dystopia and forsaking a new Enlightenment, a new Renaissance, because "eh, it's too hard to care."
Reputation is emotional and therefore non-objective. Animals can construct hierarchies based on reputation. We are human beings with all the tools to shape our reality. Why should we forsake our intellect for an animalistic way of life? Because it allows us to be controlled by whoever is at the top of the hierarchy dispensing reputation? This article, this idea, is poison.
mature citizen
she
Yep, this is a propaganda stunt.
The message here is "blindly trust your favorite source, here's a falsely sophisticated argument for why it's okay for YOU, the smart he/she/xe/.... that you are, to do so". If listened to it could have terrible effect on society, especially if its effective on the "tech sector", the people who have pretty much the only jobs that matter in the "second industrial revolution", the people who have the power to contest the will of their employers and prevent dystopia.
If the horrors that mass surveillance + AI + automation offer us are to be averted, it is YOU that are going to have to stand up, and in order to do so, you will need a philosophical grounding in order to coordinate your efforts with your peers.
This trash article is an attempt to subvert that grounding.