Who is setting the rules?

.... Social media is bad, except my social media.

"Nothing to worry about, Dr. Frankenstein."

I hate ai

Enjoy

It's constant on TV.

And special scrutiny will be given to known left-leaning sites and to posts and posters who use terms considered "interesting".

Cuz millions of us are guilty of that.

Fuck you Kristi, IM RIGHT HERE.

The internet is the TV hat watches you.
Be careful out there.

Is our participation here a form of "Social Media"?

It's the only social media I do!

I'm not going to sugarcoat the appalling nature of what ICE is doing, but I will say that it is probably much less likely that they can scrape useful information from an old-school site like DU, where people are not required to give their real names, and can use a throwaway email address to create an account (and in any event, email addresses used to register an account on DU are never made public).

While there is a space in your DU profile to include information about yourself if you want, we've never encouraged people to provide anything that they don't feel comfortable sharing -- unlike the major social media services which basically beg you to give them as much information about yourself as they can possibly get a hold of. So the kind of massive information dragnet they're talking about in the OP is probably focused more on services like X, Facebook, Instagram, etc. where it is incredibly easy to collect all kinds of demographic information and stitch it together to create profiles on people.

They would subpoena you for star members identities?

If we received some kind of "dragnet subpoena" where the government simply demanded that we hand over everyone's personal information, my first move would be to get in touch with the ACLU, EFF, Public Citizen, and/or anyone else who might be willing to provide legal assistance to a private organization that is being illegally threatened by the government. At the end of the day though, scraping social media services is far easier and more efficient than going after sites like DU. I don't use social media personally, but if I did, I'd be more concerned about that than about posting on DU.

Full text of the fourth amendment is

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

…he’s now unable to run for any political office in the Country

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Considering the volume of traffic they are claiming to be able to process. It’s mostly a scam.

The danger here is that something will be manufactured using AI to incriminate someone that they have already decided to arrest after the fact. Like the photos of the non-existing tattoos on people’s fingers.

A digital throw-down and considering the people involved, it’s not much of a stretch.

multiply that by 10 and expect them to do it. These monsters want it all. They have never had this much power and they are going insane with it.

They will do anything that they are allowed to do.

If I want to watch youtube, I'll "move" to Mexico or Canada, which makes it easier for my ad blocking add-ons to work without any pushback.

I chose Express VPN as their servers are just pass-throughs w/ no RAM or other storage to hold onto data.

That’ll throw them off my trail.

❤️ Earl.

Don't think that a NextDoor or Amazon or Etsy or anything else is immune.

I'm sure all the major email providers (google, apple, etc.) are also fed into the maul of one of these data harvesters.

This, and email and messaging from offspring, friends, and relatives.

Fuck off ICE

found online a while back

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

— Camp (@campfireharve.st) 2025-07-11T22:22:04.802Z

It is good to remove these extra identifiers but many times they are also necessary to make the target site work.

More nefariously are some new "data-" add-ons in the HTML that don't show up when hovering over links.

Also, don't rely on "Incognito" mode in your browser. It does nothing to help with privacy in these situations. If you care, use a Tor browser or some other 99% anonymizing browsers/systems/networks. It's tough!

Tracking information as some don't speak programming. But it is technically accurate to use the source identifiers term, query string. It's confusing. But it's also expeditiously communicative.

It may be time for our own form of coded language. And I'm not talking about computer code.

When forwarding links.

and try to explain.

'publicly available information'". Anyone can look at publicly available information, including LEO. If the information is public, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.

So the constitution probably will not protect you. However, regular old laws, like the telecommunications act, can provide extra protection above and beyond constitutional protections. So there may be a law somewhere that this violates. And such a law could be enacted in the future.

If they use this information to "go after" people, won't this violate the Fourth Amendment? Unfair search and seizure, or some such thing?

... there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. If you make information publicly available, you no longer have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Furthermore, the information does not have to be fully publicly disclosed. If you provide information to a friend or a business associate, and LEO asks them for it, they can turn it over. You have lost control.

This is why there are laws, like HIPA and the telecommunications act, that define privacy rights above and beyond what is provided by the constitution. Those laws can create a reasonable expectation of privacy for certain third party disclosures, like health information, or your telephone conversations.

I couldn't have imagined that the dystopian literature and film I used to enjoy wouldn't remain fiction.

Build bots. Lots-n-lots-a-bots all chattering anti-Trump messages all day long. Let ICE chase ghosts.

And then more bots, but these all pose as MAGA with anti-Trump messages. Teach the AI to associate with MAGA with anti-Trump sentiment. Let ICE chase their own tails.

And what can real people do? Add messages at the ends of your real messages associating MAGA with anti-Trump sentiment. Teach that AI that MAGA is Trump's biggest threat. Heck, teach AI that ICE is a threat to Trump. Teach AI that Vance is plotting to overthrow the government. The varieties are numerous.

This is known as poisoning the data set. AI is only as good as it's data. If they're going to skim social media for data, give them something to skew the results. It's similar to when states set up hotlines to report some outrage du jour, and the hotlines get overwhelmed with fake calls.

Note: I'm not a bot creator, but people who have the expertise and capability to field large bot armies are probably aware of what they can do. Hopefully.

Would be the best thing that has happened in a long time.

are fabricated. They are quickly losing credibility.

They can take the ice agents out financially, one by one. But first, they courts will have to establish that it is illegal.

But, if it becomes standard to sue and win, we might burn them out.

Soon, immigration enforcement is going to be a small part of their job, compared to acting as government-funded thugs attacking dissidents.

The line "Can't stop the signal, Mal" is from the movie Serenity, a sequel to the show Firefly. In the film, the character Mr. Universe says this line to Captain Malcolm Reynolds, which refers to his ability to bypass the Alliance's interference to transmit a signal that reveals a horrific truth.

these m'fuckers.

Rachel talked about the new surveillance last night. They can hack cellphones, listen, download your data, contacts, pictures, etc, and your phone's security scans would never know.

Trump is turning us into a surveillance state. They have flown drones at No Kings protests, etc. I guess everyone on DU within the US is on an enemies list.

Trump is making a private army out of this bunch of yoyos?
Could be..

trying to hide or disguise yourself. Hiding in plain sight draws less attention than running like a rabbit from bush to bush. (my own 2 cents)

Who remembers the definition of "santorum".

Wonder if I can make it "tilt" like a pinball machine when you post the highest score.

Who's with me?

These thumbs were made for posting...and that's just what they'll do. One of these days these thumbs are gonna post all over ICE.

Oh no!

I hope they don't see that!

Wait until your social security benefits stop arriving because of something you posted on Facebook.

Nazis.

Keywords achieved.

under surveillance on a granular level is mistaken. Of course a big difference is the type of sociopaths doing the surveillance under the current regime.



https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff-nsadatacenter/

they're just going to access little girls' (and little boys') Facebook or TikTok or Instagram or whatever, checking for sexy poses and then contacting them for a "meet and greet".

Yeah, they don't have the intelligence to do a massive sweeping culling of people and their data. But, boy, do they love to see little Lolitas and Niños.

If local police were to set up some sting operation. 90% of the suspects will be ICE. The other 10% will be distributed among Republican politicians, pastors, religious camp counselors, and private high school gym teachers.

We have Big Brother monitoring our lives; we have double-speak all over the place; innocent people hunted down and disappeared...

And that's just for starters.

I’ve kept politics off my Facebook page but knowing they are monitoring me, I’ll go full-on anti-MAGAt as well as getting myself a BlueSky account, a Tik-Tok page, and anything else I can find.

FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE! FUCK ICE!

Yes it is "tin foil hattery" in any other world but legitimately, I fully expect at some point some government thugs will show up at my door to try and scare me into not posting my opinions on what MAGA is going. I'll do it anyway and will tell them to their faces.

I'll be among the last they come for.... so maybe nature will take me out before they get down to roughing up old white ladies in retirement communities in red states.

This thing is god-like in its reach...


"The agency has declined to disclose how the flagged data will be used in enforcement actions or shared with other departments."

but of course!

If I post “Trump is a butthole”. ICE arrests me and sends me to Guatemala? What are we talking about here? Is this why Washington crossed the Delaware? So we could all live in a George Orwell novel?

George Soros, I call on you to fund the left's version of this system!

(Also should add monitoring of Airline Flight Reservations, for when the MAGAts attempt to flee the country!)

Add Bovino is a Pendejo randomly in stuff we write(?)
Bovino Pendejo.
Or start calling Homan 50K!$!

Just put shit like that in rverything

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Is America great again yet?

I'll be discussing my endometriosis, my IBS, the chocolate ovarian tumor I had and cookie recipes.

I will also use it as an opportunity to punish unsuspecting audiences with poorly written fan fiction about the Omegaverse and MPreg.