Comment on Germany’s CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks

hector@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

How else are they going to, let me check notes, can’t read my writing here, stamp out anti salmonism? What a joke, a dishonest system wants everyone’s information to let palantir type organizations create social scores and threat asssessments based on half baked and dishonest metrics, with ways for their authorities to make sure you get a bad score even when it’s not warranted by their rules.

All done in secret, used against you in secret, and promulgated to business, to be used in deciding jobs, loans, what prices you are offered, even what search results you will be shown online. How the police treat you, the courts treat you.

This is surrendering their citizens to tech, no matter what they tell you, for a cut of the information and a position to direct the all encompassing surveillance past despots couldn’t dream of, they are surrendering all of your information to tech, that will export all of this data no matter what they tell you, no matter how it’s supposed to be secure. Their data banks will get it, and the US government will get it.

The entire system will be vulnerable, by design I suspect, to hackers, foreign intelligence agencies, oligarchs and their security contractors, criminal groups, religious groups, and any organized group with axes to grind on someone(s.)

To allow this, by these constitutionally dishonest people helming a government losing control in real time to a far right intent on fixing elections with the help of the US and Russia is just astounding. This kind of arrogant betrayal of the population will all but guarantee the far right wins sooner than later. While the lawmakers passing this think the plutocratic rot will continue with sold out parties continuing indefinitely, as if they aren’t already bleeding support and credibility. Get popular reform.

Either you give them popular reform, or the far right, in the service of Russia and the US, will give (fake,) popular reform, and the formers will help them fix themselves in power just as they have done and are doing themselves. The republics are in mortal danger, liberal democracy is all but doomed because the plutocracy’s death grips on political parties.

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