Major Winter @paladin@tenforward.social

"Securus Technologies markets a product to law enforcement that taps into realtime cell-tower data from mobile carriers to produce fine-grained location tracking of anyone carrying a phone..."

https://boingboing.net/2018/05/12/extraordinary-access.html

#acab

The right to privacy should be rigorously enforced. The social media corporations will try to evade the regulations, since their fabulous profits come from the misappropriation of data. #FacebookDataLeaks https://twitter.com/SolidarityUS/status/988411742572171264

We don't need to keep politics a thing for the elites. We need to help everyone have more of what the elites have: time, money and education to be active citizens.

Make everyone an elite (an inherent contradiction, I know) and maybe our democracy will be better and more people will work in the interest of all, rather than a few people working in their own interests at the expense of everyone else.

@Siphonay The joke of Big Bang is usually 'These people on the autistic spectrum struggle with acting like normal people' or 'surface level pop culture reference'.

it isn't a crime for A.N.T.I.F.A. Supersoldiers to behead all business owners if they wear masks while they do it

ask any lawyer

The big bang theory is a really shitty show don't you think

Have you ever had one of those moments where you're like lifting the flaps of a box of raisins and you realize that the entire cardboard box construction from concept to manufacturing is a product of the massive wave of commercializing and mass production of packaged food products aimed at post-ww2 housewives trying to single-handedly maintain middle to upperclass living standards without the historically necessary assistance of hired help?

broke: punching fascists

woke: beating fascists with chunks of pavement

I've been hearing a lot of prominent people speak about surveillance and privacy, but when I hear Richard Stallman talk about it, it really struck a chord with me.

"We need a law. Fuck them — there’s no reason we should let them exist if the price is knowing everything about us. Let them disappear. They’re not important — our human rights are important. No company is so important that its existence justifies setting up a police state. And a police state is what we’re heading toward."

To toot boldly where no one has tooted before

A Socialist Silicon Valley | The best way to reform Silicon Valley is to strike at the root of its power — and that means taking on private ownership. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/big-tech-techlash-facebook-cambridge-analytica/