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Caleb James DeLisle

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> Western countries are by contrast, roughly the opposite of ethno-states, with governments continuously stirring the pot of ethnic tensions, air-dropping new ethnic groups into communities, and changing the rules of caste system that is protected minority groups.

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Caleb James DeLisle

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz remote

> This sudden push to regulate the internet, eliminate anonymity, and undermine privacy is almost certainly because the administrative class has realized that The Deal which defined the internet - free speech in exchange for pervasive surveillance - has not worked out the way they had hoped. So now they’re trying to renege on their end of it.

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plat

@k1tteh@uwu.social remote

@cjd
i prefer cory doctorow's idea
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/01/ontogeny/#recapitulates-phylogeny

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Rose

@Java@freeatlantis.com remote

@cjd So true. It's "surveillance for safety." Give up your freedom, and you'll be safe. Freedom takes blood.

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Caleb James DeLisle

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz remote

Well, nobody really believes the safety line. The real exchange of value here is free speech in exchange for mass surveillance.

Nobody would voluntarily put the internet in their home, or develop applications for it, or anything else if the ONLY thing it did was spy on them. It had to be useful for anyone to want to use it.

Caleb James DeLisle

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz remote

Exactly. They wanted so badly to be able to suss out the IRA that they created something more powerful than themselves, and now they're getting cold feet over it.

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@MadrePappagallo@nicecrew.digital remote

They want to punish those who notice their crimes.

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dictatordave

@dictatordave@poa.st remote

@cjd @Zeb @Java the solution is to spy on members of the government

if they say they can put a camera up and watch your house 24/7, put a camera in front of every local politicians house and every cop's house

and when they resist, give them the ol 'well if you're not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about'

imo all of this shit is just to brow beat normies, not actually corral anyone into spaces where free speech is completely off limits, its also to try and make people think their little signal some how rises above all the noise of the internet

reminder, there are dozens of domestic terrorist groups in the us, right now, and they never get their doors kicked in, you could say its because they have the right friends in the gov, but honestly they just dont make enough noise to elevate their signal to the level of action

and a lot of this data collection is for retroactive punishment imo

>you were a raycis this many times and judge ook ook is going to oversee your case and hand down a very personal sentence because his nigger feelings were hurt by proxy

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dictatordave

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@MadrePappagallo @cjd maybe if you're a writer
ask gary webb how shit works

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Caleb James DeLisle

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz remote

People who don't remember the P2P war, or weren't alive at that time, don't necessarily know how this is going to play out - but I can tell you it's almost certain that this is going to backfire - spectacularly.

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@MadrePappagallo@nicecrew.digital remote

People are already taking a stand against having data centers near them.

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dictatordave

@dictatordave@poa.st remote

@MadrePappagallo @cjd i mean look at this place
it was a reaction to other sites being shitty