hey turns out our tech oligarchs are the ones spying on us and not the chinese, what a twist!
It’s both.
What are the Chinese going to do to you with your data Vs say the tech firm selling your data to insurance companies?
Better targeted psyops. Same the the CIA does.
what psyops?
What do you mean “what psyops”? Are you unaware that both China and the US, as well as almost every other country around the world, conduct foreign influence campaigns?
And I’m sure I don’t need to give you examples of American campaigns. Most of Hollywood contributes.
are you seriously comparing actual cia psyops to this accusation?
It seemed like the best source available from a ten-second Google search while taking a shit, but I can nip down to the local CIA field office and pick up some classified ops docs if you want a primary source, I’m sure they make that info available.
Was really waiting for them to reveal how they knew this campaign was Chinese.
I can believe that it’s something China could do, but I’m not sure why I should believe this article’s assumptions without evidence provided.
I’d be more surprised if countries like the US, China, and Russia weren’t trying to influence each other.
can you please tell me how exactly chinese psyops will destroy the US? 'cause i can’t really see how anything they could would hurt the world.
would the chinese, perhaps, campaign for communism in the US? how could that possibly be bad?
I mean, if they are then you should be rooting for them. Your living conditions would skyrocket under Chinese hegemony
the evil ccp use your data to sell you cheaper commodities, the free west use your data to restrict your rights
Yeah and both of those are bad. Product dumping kills local businesses, like how the US sending clothes overseas kills domestic textile industries, and processed food aid kills farms needed for self-sufficiency.
lmao as if i could give a shit about petit-bourgeoisie going out of business.
Yeah, only megacorps and slave labor! Because fuck people owning the means of production, am I right?
Small shops aren’t the means of production but the profit extraction still operates through robbing wage slaves of the surplus value they create. The petite bougie bosses you’re trying to shill for are some of the most reactionary elements that go straight for fascism because it promises them protections from international capital (which is defined as a conspiratorial cabal unlike domestic capital hence their almost anti-capitalist rhetoric sometimes). They’re also some of the most cruel because they directly cheat employees that they know and interact with personally.
Yes, i want highly centralized production owned by the people not highly decentralized production owned by a multitude of petit-bourgeoisie. I want stuff to be abundant for everybody through mass production, not highly constrained by small scale production.
Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.
Make a fake one that posts like… idk post random tech stuff that you could be reasonably interested in. Make nothing critical of authority. As a decoy profile.
Then you can rant about big brother on an anonymous Lemmy Account over TOR.
and then they check their palantir database and see your lying and throw you in a south american gulag
But a super recent account would be suspicious
You have to do this over a couple years
I can see a black market for decade old “clean” social media accounts to bypass the system lmao
Finally a killer app for AI. Create social media profiles and use AI agents to populate them with bland uncontroversial drivel.
If you don’t have social media you must be “hiding” something and will be denied entry.
will be denied entry
Source:
look at the news, airhead. They detain tourists and journalists for far less nowadays. Even fucking Senators. What else needs to happen for you to wake up?
Who was denied entry for not having social media?
Holy crap. How is this even real?
I haven’t get my #viss, but since last year I was thinking about it. With these news and for what you see from the #USA, there is no way that I’ll throw myself into that humilliation
Oh no, I can’t visit Amerikkkka now
oh no, i now don’t get to spend $200 + travel costs to tramit an american visa 😭
lmao, their tourism is going to shrivel and die so fast
It already is… Many people from Europe I know, now cancelled their plans.
The attendance for the next FIFA cup was already looking bad, and I can’t imagine the US government wanting your history of online activity to help it even a bit.
I can’t wait to see high attendance in Mexico and Canada-hosted matches, with rock bottom attendance in the US. Even US fans travelling domestically, don’t go, especially to the states that are falling into line with Trump.
Not that it will actually be recognized for what it is. I may put together a bingo card on the ways media spins it.
Yeah looking at the attendance for the world club competition is pretty bad.
I’ve been boycotting the world cup for a decade because they can’t stop giving the host status to horrible states
People should boycott it outright.
The entire event industry is a front for sex trafficking.
Maybe that will finally kill off the giant amorphous blob of human rights violations known as FIFA
The last one was in some barbarian gulf state, now it’s even worse. Fuck FIFA
Here officer my username is ifuckyourmum69
People want to immigrate to the USA still? Bizarre.
There are still countries even worse than the US.
And I think you’re underestimating the strength of an immigrant’s will to take risks to attempt to find a better life. Immigrants have suffered far worse throught US History.
I mean, just take a look at Wong Kim Ark. Dude didn’t just give up and leave, he stood his ground and fought though it, even though he had no idea if the US would even consider his case seriously.
And many people already have relatives in the US. So these are the risks they are willing to take to reunite. Unlike many westerners, who just completely give up on the slightest obstacles.
(Although I do think the much better option now is the EU, if they don’t have any relatives in the US already.)
You can need a visa for tourism.
People want to travel to the USA still? Bizarre.
Lol I don’t even remember most of my previous handles. If amnesia isn’t a valid defense I’m never getting into the USA. Then again, I have no reason to visit shithole countries in the first place.
Nobody can and that will be use to prove that you lie on the form if they need to find something on you in the future.
Oh no, I might have to lie to the government
Of course, how would they know if you don’t list any? Oh, that’s right, PRISM. Fully expect that people who don’t have social media accounts to get accused of having them simply because someone else shares the same name and did say First Amendment protected stuff, like Donald Trump is a terrible fucking president and should be impeached.
Sorry person with the last name Erdude. I guess you aren’t getting into the US now.
I feel like I’m going to be responsible for Trump sending ICE to raid the Shady Pines community event planning committee that picks the color schemes for their weekly card games.
should be impeached
Impeached and then executed for treason.
Dragged out and gaddafied
I was thinking more of Mussolinied
it’s ok. my married name is Erdude but we spell it E’Rdude.
Why does this make me think of Birdcage…
I am a doctor and my professional name is Dr. ER dude.
What if you don’t have social media accounts?
“quite suspicous what do you have to hide?” and then they smack you with batons arrest you and put you in jail with gang members muders and every evil and vile person
Right away, jail!
That’s even worse.
Good thing I delete that crap 10+ years ago. Enjoy the shitty data and memes!
Same, but it worries me that now I look like I’m hiding something.
I guess technically I am hiding something: It’s disdain. Disdain for shitty social media is what I’m hiding.
Good luck. NYS couldn’t even keep track of this requirement just for CCW permits.
“I don’t use social media”
Lying on an official document? Straight to jail.
Didn’t actually have any accounts? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
If you’re a student, you must have something to hide, as everyone uses social media
For the longest time that answer would have been literally true for me, I only used SMS.
Even worse. Fully unencrypted messages
I’m trying to move my conversations to Signal, but some people are strangely resistant, despite using multiple corporate social media messaging services besides that.
