i’m sorry. where are we going with this? are you suggesting it’s ok to let corporations and governments compile databases of information on people, and that surveillance is not, itself, a form of oppression?
you should know i am earnest. i’m learning how to snark. i try to say what i mean and mean what i say.
sometimes i do try to make jokes, but I am not sarcastic.
i’m sorry. where are we going with this? are you suggesting it’s ok to let corporations and governments compile databases of information on people, and that surveillance is not, itself, a form of oppression?
the law that protected concerted organizing activity is the same that took the teeth out of the unions. i want to see that law abolished, but i’m an anarchist, so i want them all gone.
that’s not really the same as having a database full of people and all the information at your fingertips.
and how many government agencies could access that database with a simple letter?
that doesn’t make me feel any better about having governments and their constructs (corporations) looking over my shoulder.
concerted organizing activity is protected under the law. talking about it with your boss yourself is not organizing activity. talking about it with a coworker in front of your boss is.
this is what a job journal is for. it would prove what happened.
>I’m also not a believer that all oppression can/should be eliminated
… i’m an anarchist. so that’s like my raison d’être
i know plenty of people who ended up in jail, but never me.
are we really measuring trauma here? shouldn’t we be fighting oppression together?
i remember not suffering under the surveillance state.
anarchists have had to deal with this for over a century. the state can go fuck itself.
they could develop new features but intentionally implement them in a way that they are not compatible with other services. they could put all the other instances they federate with on rolling blackouts so that it seems like they are down when in fact it’s just them cutting the connection. doing just these two things with purpose could make it look like Facebook has the most advanced and stable instance. in addition, as you mentioned, it would also have the biggest populace. there would be pressure to abandon other instances to join that instance to stay in touch.
if you think I violated a rule you should report it.
>If you call liberals fascists, you are alienating a potential ally
leftists have a saying:
scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds.
if liberals want to be my ally, they will abandon liberalism.
again, this is easily disprovable. you are paranoid
again, this is easily disprovable. you are paranoid
first, i don’t use capitalization, my account is years older, we talk about (almost) entirely disparate topics, and we have conflicting political views. you’d never catch me saying this:
"The GOP intends to coup. "
and my posting history will back that up.
>Democrats aren’t generally fascists.
i’d disagree, but, again, i’m consulting mussolini for my definition, not 21st century vibes.
first, i don’t use capitalization, my account is years older, we talk about (almost) entirely disparate topics, and we have conflicting political views. you’d never catch me saying this:
"The GOP intends to coup. "
and my posting history will back that up.
again, this is easily disprovable. you are paranoid
this is exactly why section 230 exists. sites aren’t responsible for what other people post and they are allowed to moderate however they want.