I know it’s a bit cliche at this point to go over this but it’s still surreal to me how we know we live in a digital panopticon that actively has changed our behavior. We do not know if we are specifically being monitored, but the fact that it’s a non-zero chance, no matter how small of a percent it is, has prevented true behaviors from being expressed. The fedposting emoticon itself is a ironic reflection of this. Who knows how much we’re willing to change ourselves just to appease some masters in criminal psychology suit sitting in a windowless cubicle in Virginia?
Spies and infiltration have always and will always be a problem for leftist groups. Every revolution has to deal with counter-revolution by the ruling class. The tactics of counter revolution merely keep pace with the general state of technology, but until they start doing neural implants or something I don’t think it is that much more severe today compared with, for example, 100 years ago the Freikorps’ work during the 1918 German revolution. The USSR and Maoist China had constantly to defend themselves against internal and external counter-revolutionary tendencies. This of course is criticized by liberals as authoritarian “purges” because, to the liberal mind, all ideology is sacred as such, and above criticism. Look up as well the FBI snitches in the Black Panther Party and the surveillance of MLK.
All that has changed is today people communicate through digital media, so those media are of course insecure. The general character of revolutionary discipline has not (IMO) changed that much. If digital surveillance has only made people more aware of the reality of surveillance, then that’s a silver lining I guess.
At this point I'm probably in multiple lists so I don't give a fuck lmao
Its all the same list and everybody's on it. Just try to keep your name from being too close to the top
creating spyware to steal people's credit card info
creating spyware to run covert terroristic google searches on other people's devices thus hiding yourself in plain sight
Same, I don’t want to know how many pages the feds have on me. But at the same time I really want to know.
You just moved up four places for knowing that you move up two places for knowing how it works
Ah, Wendigoon. I truly hope you never express your political views.
@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net can we please get this emoji? It can be named :loony-lib:
Post to !emoji@hexbear.net if you want it!
I think it would be a little too on the nose tbh, but my emoji game isn’t that strong, so maybe I’m not thinking ahead enough.
