About your note about Bank of America. After the Canadian trucker brouhaha, I wrote my bank's CEO, asking if they would follow such an order issued by either the Biden administration for anybody who did business with anyone organizing or supporting January 6, or a future Republican administration doing the same for Black Lives Matter and Antifa. I noted that I had earned all of 10 cents last month off my savings of quite a few thousand dollars, so keeping it in the bank rather than under my mattress would only buy me a downpayment on a candy bar even though inflation is currently raging like a brush fire. The CEO, if he ever saw it, sent it to the PR department who took 2 weeks to respond that they follow all laws and would not speculate on anything that might happen in the future. Veeeeery reassuring. ;) Much as I am sympathetic to Ukraine, I find the immediate mob attacking anything remotely Russian very disturbing. Also the near instant freezing of all accounts and of doing business with Russia only reinforces my worries about my own accounts should I do something that someone in power deems unacceptable.
Bitcoin is looking more attractive, but you have to keep it yourself rather than go through a broker or you're just as screwed as with your bank. Also it relies on access to electricity and your own ability to secure your account from others and from potential hardware failures.
As to your main point, it's well known by security experts that you have no privacy online, zilch. Your only hope is in not attracting the attention of those who might wish you ill.
Crypto is certainly the most promising way of dealing with this. The Trudeau regime tried to pull the same trick with crypto as they did with the banks. In at least one case, the company behind an app that was being widely used by the truckers to move crypto around responded to the regime's demand that they fork over their customer data and freeze the accounts of the bad people with "LOL we don't have customers, we have no idea who uses our app, we have no idea how much crypto any of our app's users have in their wallets, and that's the entire point of our service."
Why would you be sympathetic to Ukraine? They are not the good guys. Their country was taken over by an illegal jewish coup in 2014, which has since been (for reasons of starting WW3) provoking Russia. If Canada was constantly asking to form a military pact with China, then just recently gifted with over $300 million in weapons from China, and then also floats the idea of installing nuclear weapons, how many MINUTES do you think would go by before the U.S. military was rightly rolling towards Ontario to shut all that sh*t down?
Given that the American and Canadian political establishments are to a large degree already infiltrated by Chinese state influence operations, that invasion might not happen as quickly as you'd think.
I've just assumed since the early aughts that everything I do online, no matter what provisions I take to protect my privacy, is immediately sucked into the state surveillance apparatus and fed into some giant agent-based AI model of global society. In the age of the smartphone that includes basically everywhere I go and everything I say ... and the bugging device half of things at least is true even for those who don't have phones, because everyone around them is carrying one.
With some exceptions, it seems that this data isn't used to much to persecute individuals as it is to monitor public sentiment. That suggests that the worst thing everyone could do is stop speaking their mind online, because that would send a false signal to the security state that it's go time for full technocratic dystopia. Much better if there's a constant background of disaffected grumbling that keeps the bastards up at night worried about torches, pitchforks, AR-15s, show trials, and mass hangings.
"Would a new owner find out about it?" Now that's an INTERESTING question.
Deepstate has a long record of insulating "improper" presidents from knowledge. A deepstate-style corporation would presumably know how to insulate an "improper" CEO while giving him the impression that he has full access.
They are worried about Musk being one person owning all that data? What was The Zuck doing while they wrote that? Standing in a field with his hands behind his back, looking up and the sky while whistling? And how is it different that a corporation owns all this data from a single person? The problem is that anyone owns and controls this data other than the user. Time for a user bill of rights.
But we do know about it. We have seen Jen Psaki refer to it with respect to Facebook. We have seen censorship in YouTube and Facebook and Twitter that aligns to the government, well the Democrat regime rather. We have seen push propaganda messages from Facebook et al. We have seen Google searches strip out things they don’t want you to see. We have seen a new directive from Homeland security that criminalises as terrorism anyone who “spreads misinformation “ especially if that misinformation is actually true and goes against the Democrat regime. What more evidence do we need? There is reasonable doubt that the big tech and big Pharma corporations are acting in good faith and not acting in collusion with the government, which as I understand it is a violation of the US constitution. That’s the ballgame, the fight is now for freedom and democracy to be retained and renewed or to succumb to the Greta reset (AKA neo Feudalism). Chose wisely...
Shoshana is an idiot (or taking people to be idiots) because a corporate body is a legal person and remains so whether its shares are owned by one person or many. What matters is the regulatory framework applicable to data processing by that corporate person, and this framework will be the same no matter the number of shareholders.
If the data processing framework isn’t sufficient to protect our data if twitter’s shares are owned by E Musk, then that framework isn’t enough to protect us now (and in fact I’d agree with this). So Shoshsna should be campaigning against that, not drumming up fear about a share transfer which will be irrelevant for data protection purposes.
a) Bill Binney is God. I can’t wait for panquake. b) My issue with Musk buying Tesla is not what the shit lib left seem to have issue with (We can’t censor people then!). It’s that he won’t change it or be anymore transparent than the Bezos/WaPo combo. Being in Facebook Jail again 12th 30 day ban in 16 months), I doubt Musk would be any different than Zuckerberg. After all, it was Musk, in 2020, who said, “We can coup whomever we want.” regarding Bolivia. WE? Elon?
About your note about Bank of America. After the Canadian trucker brouhaha, I wrote my bank's CEO, asking if they would follow such an order issued by either the Biden administration for anybody who did business with anyone organizing or supporting January 6, or a future Republican administration doing the same for Black Lives Matter and Antifa. I noted that I had earned all of 10 cents last month off my savings of quite a few thousand dollars, so keeping it in the bank rather than under my mattress would only buy me a downpayment on a candy bar even though inflation is currently raging like a brush fire. The CEO, if he ever saw it, sent it to the PR department who took 2 weeks to respond that they follow all laws and would not speculate on anything that might happen in the future. Veeeeery reassuring. ;) Much as I am sympathetic to Ukraine, I find the immediate mob attacking anything remotely Russian very disturbing. Also the near instant freezing of all accounts and of doing business with Russia only reinforces my worries about my own accounts should I do something that someone in power deems unacceptable.
Bitcoin is looking more attractive, but you have to keep it yourself rather than go through a broker or you're just as screwed as with your bank. Also it relies on access to electricity and your own ability to secure your account from others and from potential hardware failures.
As to your main point, it's well known by security experts that you have no privacy online, zilch. Your only hope is in not attracting the attention of those who might wish you ill.
Crypto is certainly the most promising way of dealing with this. The Trudeau regime tried to pull the same trick with crypto as they did with the banks. In at least one case, the company behind an app that was being widely used by the truckers to move crypto around responded to the regime's demand that they fork over their customer data and freeze the accounts of the bad people with "LOL we don't have customers, we have no idea who uses our app, we have no idea how much crypto any of our app's users have in their wallets, and that's the entire point of our service."
Why would you be sympathetic to Ukraine? They are not the good guys. Their country was taken over by an illegal jewish coup in 2014, which has since been (for reasons of starting WW3) provoking Russia. If Canada was constantly asking to form a military pact with China, then just recently gifted with over $300 million in weapons from China, and then also floats the idea of installing nuclear weapons, how many MINUTES do you think would go by before the U.S. military was rightly rolling towards Ontario to shut all that sh*t down?
Given that the American and Canadian political establishments are to a large degree already infiltrated by Chinese state influence operations, that invasion might not happen as quickly as you'd think.
I've just assumed since the early aughts that everything I do online, no matter what provisions I take to protect my privacy, is immediately sucked into the state surveillance apparatus and fed into some giant agent-based AI model of global society. In the age of the smartphone that includes basically everywhere I go and everything I say ... and the bugging device half of things at least is true even for those who don't have phones, because everyone around them is carrying one.
With some exceptions, it seems that this data isn't used to much to persecute individuals as it is to monitor public sentiment. That suggests that the worst thing everyone could do is stop speaking their mind online, because that would send a false signal to the security state that it's go time for full technocratic dystopia. Much better if there's a constant background of disaffected grumbling that keeps the bastards up at night worried about torches, pitchforks, AR-15s, show trials, and mass hangings.
"Would a new owner find out about it?" Now that's an INTERESTING question.
Deepstate has a long record of insulating "improper" presidents from knowledge. A deepstate-style corporation would presumably know how to insulate an "improper" CEO while giving him the impression that he has full access.
Elon Musk has a side line in launching NRO spy satellites into orbit, so I doubt he's unacceptable to the deep state.
But he's clearly anathema to their Woke auxiliaries, which is causing some friction among the various factions of the Outer Party.
They are worried about Musk being one person owning all that data? What was The Zuck doing while they wrote that? Standing in a field with his hands behind his back, looking up and the sky while whistling? And how is it different that a corporation owns all this data from a single person? The problem is that anyone owns and controls this data other than the user. Time for a user bill of rights.
But we do know about it. We have seen Jen Psaki refer to it with respect to Facebook. We have seen censorship in YouTube and Facebook and Twitter that aligns to the government, well the Democrat regime rather. We have seen push propaganda messages from Facebook et al. We have seen Google searches strip out things they don’t want you to see. We have seen a new directive from Homeland security that criminalises as terrorism anyone who “spreads misinformation “ especially if that misinformation is actually true and goes against the Democrat regime. What more evidence do we need? There is reasonable doubt that the big tech and big Pharma corporations are acting in good faith and not acting in collusion with the government, which as I understand it is a violation of the US constitution. That’s the ballgame, the fight is now for freedom and democracy to be retained and renewed or to succumb to the Greta reset (AKA neo Feudalism). Chose wisely...
Shoshana is an idiot (or taking people to be idiots) because a corporate body is a legal person and remains so whether its shares are owned by one person or many. What matters is the regulatory framework applicable to data processing by that corporate person, and this framework will be the same no matter the number of shareholders.
If the data processing framework isn’t sufficient to protect our data if twitter’s shares are owned by E Musk, then that framework isn’t enough to protect us now (and in fact I’d agree with this). So Shoshsna should be campaigning against that, not drumming up fear about a share transfer which will be irrelevant for data protection purposes.
So, this is reassuring. I like to Bitch. Constantly. Someone is listening!!! Goodie
BRAVO
A good reminder. I think Elon is getting a lesson on who will own what. We all are.
Room 641 ended that conversation about what the Intel Agencies do with all that data.
They simply "vacuumed" it all up.
More "evidence" of how they are cooperating internationally with/or as dupes of Foreign Intel.
Didn't Putin arrest some FSB agents for cooperating with the CIA on the "Russian Collusion" Hoax? What more evidence do we need?
Nashville.
a) Bill Binney is God. I can’t wait for panquake. b) My issue with Musk buying Tesla is not what the shit lib left seem to have issue with (We can’t censor people then!). It’s that he won’t change it or be anymore transparent than the Bezos/WaPo combo. Being in Facebook Jail again 12th 30 day ban in 16 months), I doubt Musk would be any different than Zuckerberg. After all, it was Musk, in 2020, who said, “We can coup whomever we want.” regarding Bolivia. WE? Elon?