https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/20/companies-claim-theres-a-labor-shortage-their-solution-prisoners

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Is that too paranoid, or am I not thinking paranoid enough?

      Not paranoid enough. They're going to start jailing people for online posts within 5 years, mark my words. They've probably started already

      infinite slaves, you get a new one everytime someone says something true.

      • ConstipationNation [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yea they definitely have, I read a news story a while back about a young Navajo activist who was trying to organize a police brutality protest and they charged him with terrorism because he posted something on facebook that was obviously metaphorical about "burning it down".