(12-12-2025, 01:14 PM)Ninurta Wrote: I'm genuinely befuddled by this - who creates a social media account, whether Tik-Tok, Facebook, X, or what have you - and expects people NOT to creep on it? That's sort of what it's for, and after all, governments are made up of people, too. Often CREEPY people.
That job of sifting through social media accounts has got to be the most boring job on Earth. Right up there with watching grass grow, just getting paid for it which doesn't generally happen with the grass growing watch.
The most troublesome part of the announcement, to me, is the possibility of moving to a "mobile-only platform". That would effectively ban me from international travel, since I have no mobile, same as lack of a mobile would effective ban me from personhood in the UK now under their new "digital ID" bullshit. Not that it matters that much - my days of international travel are long behind me now. In the matter of the UK, losing my personhood to a computer would be... troubling.
As far as my lack of social media presence as a "red flag" for government types goes, piss on 'em. All they gotta do is stay the hell offa my lawn, and we'll all be ok. I don't give a shit where else they wave their commie "red" flags, just not on MY lawn.
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No doubt some form of A.I. will do all the leg work and if certain words or beliefs are brought to light then the NSA gets involved. God save any country that lets the spooks get power and run things for only a true living god could defeat those assholes.
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