The only thing more jokerfying than this is the people who think that this can be stopped through the legal system. Laws don’t mean jack shit, they will do whatever they want.
And nobody should really expect otherwise anyways. I kind of have to roll my eyes at people who think this type of thing is even worth wasting breath complaining about. A government is always going to surveil, spy, control, etc. It’s on activists for doing nothing to resist it.
If someone tells you “the Soviets or Chinese or whoever are so sneaky and dystopian spying on everyone” you can bring it up how it’s the same with every government. You can mention these new actions the US govt takes. And new types of surveillance. But beyond that, they’re going to implement whatever they want.
I guess most activist orgs know this, because nobody really wastes their time trying to organizationally oppose this stuff on a legal basis. I guess that’s not entirely true, but you get my point.
There are plenty of ways to be less surveil-able if it matters to you as an individual (which it should if you’re an activist of any sort).
Idk, it’s kind of sad how unprepared it seems like orgs are with this stuff (not that I’m even involved with any). Back in the day (i.e. the 19-whatevers), people probably would have taken actual precautions to protect their own privacy and that of their orgs. Nowadays, people are using Google Drive and gmail and US web hosting providers and so on (I’m very guilty of this myself). Like there’s barely even an attempt at not providing the US govt with every little detail about our lives. Not sure how much of it is just ignorance or exceptionalism or something.
If you use windows or mac you’re also handing out not only a ton of information on whatever you do on it, but also a beachhead to install specialized tools to further track you if you’ve caught the attention of any agencies.
The only thing more jokerfying than this is the people who think that this can be stopped through the legal system. Laws don’t mean jack shit, they will do whatever they want.
And nobody should really expect otherwise anyways. I kind of have to roll my eyes at people who think this type of thing is even worth wasting breath complaining about. A government is always going to surveil, spy, control, etc. It’s on activists for doing nothing to resist it.
If someone tells you “the Soviets or Chinese or whoever are so sneaky and dystopian spying on everyone” you can bring it up how it’s the same with every government. You can mention these new actions the US govt takes. And new types of surveillance. But beyond that, they’re going to implement whatever they want.
I guess most activist orgs know this, because nobody really wastes their time trying to organizationally oppose this stuff on a legal basis. I guess that’s not entirely true, but you get my point.
There are plenty of ways to be less surveil-able if it matters to you as an individual (which it should if you’re an activist of any sort).
Idk, it’s kind of sad how unprepared it seems like orgs are with this stuff (not that I’m even involved with any). Back in the day (i.e. the 19-whatevers), people probably would have taken actual precautions to protect their own privacy and that of their orgs. Nowadays, people are using Google Drive and gmail and US web hosting providers and so on (I’m very guilty of this myself). Like there’s barely even an attempt at not providing the US govt with every little detail about our lives. Not sure how much of it is just ignorance or exceptionalism or something.
If you use windows or mac you’re also handing out not only a ton of information on whatever you do on it, but also a beachhead to install specialized tools to further track you if you’ve caught the attention of any agencies.