First things first. Hexbear makes my life bearable sometimes. I don’t use an account because I don’t like how addicted to social media I get sometimes and I’m afraid of pissing people off, because although I consider myself an ML, I come from a very conservative family where I unknowingly say bad things about idpol.
Anyways. As a very drunk man (bad very bad day first time drinking in months - not an alcoholic), do you think the US government monitors hexbear? Like if I browse it without a VPN do you think I become a POI, serious, if not stupid, question?
Again, thank you for being a shining beacon in my day surrounded by people who justify genocide, political violence against the global south, and endless enterprise. I really am grateful even if I’m not the best Marxist. You’ve taught me about donbas, about the struggles of north Korea, the toils of Iran among so much more
Edit: As a still drunkman someone asked me about idpol. I uh can't see ur messages here but I can on my Lemmy client.
uh to make myself clear not in an Obama way - I find nick Mullen stuff funny. It makes me feel bad because of the punching down so i avoid it. and I might do things that are unintentionally mean, forgetting to use the correct pronouns (like genuinely I hardly meet with my enby friends so my mind just defaults to calling someone female presenting she rather than the preferred they. I do try to correct but sometimes I'm so absent minded that I'd rather not upset anyone.
I am trying to self crit so I'm OK with being dunked on I guess. But I isolate BC I don't wanna upset ppl. Its harder to express my intentions online when I mess up. @lemmmygradwontallowme
As best I understand it, there's little in the way of active, real-life-person-looking-with-their-eyes monitoring but a whole lot of computer-programmes-looking-for-combinations-of-keywords monitoring, which then gets flagged and kicked up to actual people. The sheer quantity of data doesn't really allow for any other method. So, in the same way it's safer to use Linux not because it's 100% secure but because bad actors are going to go after the easier target of Windows users, we're less of a priority than, like, the websites and discord groups where people idolize school shooters or talk about the specs of tanks in War Thunder.
That being said... I wouldn't be surprised if there's some vestige of the COINTELPRO infiltration/monitoring operations that specifically targeted left-wing political spaces.
...I mean, I also wouldn't be surprised if there isn't, if that makes any sense? We're a generation or two removed from those days, and while ideas like "the end of history" seem laughable to us, it still has traction amongst those insulted by wealth and power.
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Did you know mormons in the CIA are given a carte blanche to break whatever doctrine they deem fit? It's OK because they're doing our Heavenly Father's work on earth, so they get pre-approved into the special top tier of heaven that's usually only reserved only for the really good doctrine-abiding LDS members.
Actually ActivityPub (Mastodon) is in the glossy advertising copy of the private intel firms and they talk specifically about how they catch federated or rarely frequented/obscure platforms. If I were on my other account I would be on PC and would have the photo to show you. This community exists specifically because of the CIA banhammer being thrown at certain Reddit communities. Don't get confused.