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Founded August 5, 2012


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I think tik tok is cringe but to ban it is vast overreach

Suzi Island wrote:I think tik tok is cringe but to ban it is vast overreach

It will likely lead to the sale of tik tok to Amwrican interests since we have to control every social app

Suzi Island wrote:I think tik tok is cringe but to ban it is vast overreach

Most of what the Federal govt has done since the rise Progressivism is unconstitutional overreach. The answer is for the govt to respect the individual's right to his own person, and any breach of such (eg, requiring eulas without the ability to negotiate line by line) as fraud and extortion under the UCC (which imnsho it already is.) -- selling someone else's data without prior contractual agreement face to face with itemized reimbursment and receipt a tort at least, and a felony at worst.

Narland wrote:Most of what the Federal govt has done since the rise Progressivism is unconstitutional overreach. The answer is for the govt to respect the individual's right to his own person, and any breach of such (eg, requiring eulas without the ability to negotiate line by line) as fraud and extortion under the UCC (which imnsho it already is.) -- selling someone else's data without prior contractual agreement face to face with itemized reimbursment and receipt a tort at least, and a felony at worst.

The restriction of citizens freedoms in the various nefarious ways and laws the deep state uses while ignoring crime against peaceful citizenry is one of the great injustices of the times

Narland wrote:thanks. first thing to do when buying any new product -- delete the spyware and cripple the coms.

This is a good practice, but broadly limited by lack of knowledge - either the knowledge of the value of such action or the knowledge of how to properly bring this about. In this case, the method is fairly straight forward - refuse the terms of the OnStar Smart Driver subscription service or similar (although sometimes this is just a pretense and they'll use your data anyway, and then there's Honda which allegedly doesn't allow an opt-out according to the article). In other cases, knowledge required to delete the spyware and cripple the coms is limited to those who have spent time gaining enough information to flash a new ROM, install a new OS, use different software, adopt different social media, forego the internet of things, forego the internet of bodies (shudder), use and modify home networks, Pi-holes, etc.

Narland wrote:Most of what the Federal govt has done since the rise Progressivism is unconstitutional overreach. The answer is for the govt to respect the individual's right to his own person, and any breach of such (eg, requiring eulas without the ability to negotiate line by line) as fraud and extortion under the UCC (which imnsho it already is.) -- selling someone else's data without prior contractual agreement face to face with itemized reimbursment and receipt a tort at least, and a felony at worst.

While I would love the ability to have more negotiating power on the side of consumers, I do have that general concern about government imposing itself in negotiations upon consenting parties who should theoretically be competent to enter into contract on their own. Moreover, I see this as another opportunity for the government to find new ways to seize powers for itself, while simultaneously helping to drive the problem of surveillance for self serving purposes. In other words, this is ripe for abuse as a classic dialectical tactic.

Regardless of the wisdom of government intervention, I don't think any wide-scale solution exists, whether with or without government, without a culture that values privacy and proactively seeks it out. And so, here's my periodic contribution to promoting that culture:

Psychological Impact of Surveillance
https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Impact-of-surveillance:b

The current state of privacy is bad. Surveillance today is pervasive, and the effects of this surveillance on the fabric of society is profound. We need to make sure we’re fully aware of the consequences of creating a world without privacy.

If we want to reclaim privacy in the digital age, the answer is not to throw out our devices, it’s to truly embrace technology, and leverage all the new, cutting edge privacy and encryption technologies being developed every day.

We are empowered human beings. And many of us aren't just passive enjoyers of technology -- we have a say in the direction that this technology will take, and are helping write its future. It's in our power to make sure that the future we create is the best possible timeline, not the worst.

So let’s be intentional about the kind of future we want.

Suzi Island wrote:I think tik tok is cringe but to ban it is vast overreach

I do overlap with the neocons a little bit here. I consider TikTok to be a psychological warfare platform used to carry out influence operations and track any users of a device on which it may be installed. It is also, intentionally or not, a sort of digital opium that is not only addictive but appears to degrade attention spans, critical thinking, and induce social and behavioral maladaptation (yeah, maybe the maladaptive sorts are drawn to the platform, but I think it goes both ways). Its parent company ByteDance is also host to a political commisariat called a CCP Committee, which is typical of large companies in the PRC.

I would further note the double standards - the PRC owns TikTok but they don't allow it to operate on their side of the Great Firewall. Nor do they allow American social media in China. But this is where I part company from the likes of Dan Crenshaw.

American social media are also psychological warfare platforms, which are being actively employed in myriad domestic disinformation campaigns at home and foreign campaigns abroad. They track, they censor, and they organize campaigns against troublesome content creators. If you think it's outrageous that TikTok's parent company should be forced to have a cell of political officers, you should be more incensed at all of the "retired" spies infesting American big tech firms, with a particular focus on their Trust and Safety Councils.

I think at its root, the US government is hard pressed to find a standard by which it can criticize TikTok, where the same argument can't be turned back on itself. If the US cleaned up its own house, this is a problem that might very well be solved in the process. In the mean time however, we are mired in our own moral bankruptcy.

Fierrol wrote:I do overlap with the neocons a little bit here. I consider TikTok to be a psychological warfare platform used to carry out influence operations and track any users of a device on which it may be installed. It is also, intentionally or not, a sort of digital opium that is not only addictive but appears to degrade attention spans, critical thinking, and induce social and behavioral maladaptation (yeah, maybe the maladaptive sorts are drawn to the platform, but I think it goes both ways). Its parent company ByteDance is also host to a political commisariat called a CCP Committee, which is typical of large companies in the PRC.

I would further note the double standards - the PRC owns TikTok but they don't allow it to operate on their side of the Great Firewall. Nor do they allow American social media in China. But this is where I part company from the likes of Dan Crenshaw.

American social media are also psychological warfare platforms, which are being actively employed in myriad domestic disinformation campaigns at home and foreign campaigns abroad. They track, they censor, and they organize campaigns against troublesome content creators. If you think it's outrageous that TikTok's parent company should be forced to have a cell of political officers, you should be more incensed at all of the "retired" spies infesting American big tech firms, with a particular focus on their Trust and Safety Councils.

I think at its root, the US government is hard pressed to find a standard by which it can criticize TikTok, where the same argument can't be turned back on itself. If the US cleaned up its own house, this is a problem that might very well be solved in the process. In the mean time however, we are mired in our own moral bankruptcy.

Also the whole idea of kids consuming bad content being the fault of the app and not the parents for better monitoring their kids social media usage is laughable

Suzi Island wrote:Also the whole idea of kids consuming bad content being the fault of the app and not the parents for better monitoring their kids social media usage is laughable

Parents gotta parent.

Fierrol wrote:Parents gotta parent.

Many just want daddy government to do the job

Thanks for posting Psychological Impact of Surveillance
https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Impact-of-surveillance:b. Good article.

Re: Freedom from State Sponsored Corporatist Serfdom: I won't broadcast any groups or organizations as they tend to become targets of malice by bad actors, but groups that effectively circumvent vehicular fascism can be found in most large urban centers that like to lay low on the radar and practice gray market capitalism. The rural spots tend to be individuals or a small family group with even less ability to avoid malice or protect themselves. Many like to keep things word of mouth. It can be costly, but considering the price of new cars, it would probably be worth adding it into the cost of buying an new one. Only use DIY guides that others have successfully used on relevant models. No sense learning your own costly mistakes when you can learn from the costly mistakes of others. Open Source groups, EFF, and Repair.Org, and some of the oldest social networks that act more like newspaper want ads are friends in this regard. For a young family just starting out, and for most Americans, this would be lest costly in the long-run as a developed habit (social custom), than the obvious goose-stepping that will happen if we do not. Addenda: The contributing factor is people not taking responsibility for themselves to treat the Internet when it was opened to the pubic as a free people in social contract with each other according to established property rights, as there were still enough Traditional Americans alive at the time that could make it so without having to wrangle and compromise our inherent rights away. Instead we treated it as if it were merely a paid subscription service to watch hamsters dance, and cats play the piano, instead of the biggest events to change world civilizations since the advent of quill, ink, papyrus, and alphabet as a venture the development of which every extant civilization (except one) relies; and the advent of replaceable metal type in a press, indelible ink with a little soap, and forging a font typography as an enterprise, of which only the most wicked of governments dare deny to their oppressed persons.

Imagine, if every time a scribe wanted to scribble, he was automatically assumed to have agreed to a contractual obligation to Papyrosoft's EULA, TOS, and (lack of) Privacy Policy, and Pharaoh Gates' preferred tools that he and his subsequent cadre could arbitrary decree were outmoded, thus forcing people to upgrade to the latest and greatest stupid idea, like pens made from a certain donkey part (but wrapped with a proprietary ribbon, so yay!), because feathers are now in the pubic domain. That world powers agreed to this (not-so good, but better than other evils at the time) ideas gone horribly wrong called copyright, patent, and trademark that no longer helped scribes, orators, and poets get the recognition due their labor, but was now used by world elite to crush them, and absurdly keep their powerbase against natural law and common sense. The world would be stuck in a pre-literate bronze age, with only the elite having access to the secrets of iron, and the Great Works of the ancients of which every civilization was able to transfer its thoughts to the next generation relatively uncorrupted as a basis of societal development is gone. The chances of the world falling back into the dark ignorance of perpetual illiteracy relying on the thought-mongers of the strong and mighty in constant tribal warfare would be assured.

I was going to make a similar analogy to the printing press, but shorter is better.

I did want to comment on contract for clarification, but am not able atm.

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