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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The scary thing isn’t that this sort of thing is technically possible. It’s that the cops try this lazy-ass investigative method because they know full well the information oligopolies readily play ball and provide the data more often than not.

  And that my friends is the very definition of Fascism: when big business is in cahoots with the authorities. Don’t take my word for it: Benito Mussolini, the very dude who invented Fascism, said it himself in 1932:

  “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

  I’ve known Big Data would eventually lead us to full-blown fascism since Scott McNealy inadvertently spilled the beans about the future of privacy in 1999. Everybody dismissed McNealy back then and said nobody would stand for this. But I instantly realized he was telling the naked truth as it would happen that day. And I’ve been called a nutcase and a conspiracy theorist ever since, for a full quarter of a century.

  And now here we are: everybody is finally coming to the same realization - too late to do any goddamn thing about it.

  This is sad…

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  • apolo399@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is unlikely that Mussolini ever made this statement because it contradicts most of the other writing he did on the subject of corporatism and corporations.

    From your own link.

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  • slingstone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember the term for the fascists in Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here were corporatists. That novel was contemporaneous with the rise of fascism as I recall, and it’s a chilling look at how America might have gone fascist back then. It’s pretty relevant to what’s happening now.

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  • FirstCircle@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Re: Fascism, Mussolini’s full explanation/description is a very good read. Here’s a version that a search turned up:

    sjsu.edu/faculty/…/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf .

    Another: …wix.com/…/927b40_c1ee26114a4d480cb048f5f96a4cc68… (Soames).

    Got to hand it to the guy, he was well-educated and could write, which is more than you can say for his modern-day imitators, especially the loud, orange one.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  invidious ftw

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  • johnassel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But one has to be careful when using Invidious since the browser gets the video feed directly from Youtube/Google unless it is proxied or a VPN/Tor is used.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      thats sad to hear, why is it much slower then?

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This… isn’t how I thought it worked.

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  • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I prefer Freetube, but I agree

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    • jack@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Freetube is Invidious under the hood

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• Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actions, not thoughts, or media consumption, or associations should be the basis for legal actions against people.

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  • RiQuY@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally Psycho-Pass plot.

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  • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Broadly speaking this is terrible in its implications and I am NOT defending this practice based on “wont somebody think of the children” because of the slippery slope argument.

    However, there is a almost hidden in plain sight emporium of borderline CP buried in the YT servers. Videos of peoples kids in dance/gymnastics/swimming costumes and the comments are disturbing in their “sanitary” nature… its mostly timestamps. Timestamps of when the 8yo girl has her legs spread as part of a dance routine and stuff like that.

    Its a shame that for the people to be protected from broad govt surveillance we also have to protect that shit.

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    • HorreC@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would suggest the adding of said time stamp would be an action, that would be actionable by CP or laws that protect the children. But also we worry to much and the state goes too far. They have been for years trying to get porn online banned (or gated), and its for the children, but it would be much better and simpler to make a .kids domain and make it a walled garden, then you could show intent by adults to get in there. Then the parents that want their children in the safe area, support it and pay for those things and those companies could be better monitored for data issues and tracking instead of the other way around (not that I like my data being stolen 100's of times a day, but its my choice if I want to use more secure means or not).

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The more I watch Ghost In The Shell, the more I think “man the stuff Section 9 does is actually pretty awful, it’s a good thing they’re the good guys”

  I wish the people doing Section 9 shit were the good guys in real life. They don’t even have any hot cyborgs.

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  • feedmecontent@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In real life the good guys don’t do that stuff. It’s sort of adjacent to copaganda where the noble police detective HAS to torture the suspect because he’s going to strike again! That red tape lawyer bs is going to get everyone killed!!!

    But if you look at what that mentality enables in real life it’s innocent teens getting beaten up and tricked into incriminating themselves because bad media led us to believe breaking the rules is what good cops have to do to save the day.

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• theodewere@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they were tracking down a SWATter, so i'm fine with it

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So the ends justifies the means?

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    • theodewere@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      this particular case called for it, that's all

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  • wagoner@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The concern is who gets to draw the line. Will it be drawn when the Texas AG seeks viewers of a YouTube video about abortion? Once the gates are open, who can really say.

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• stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like my avoidance of ads is paying off with newpipe and freetube replacing using a signed in YouTube use to watch videos and keep track of my subscriptions.

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  • shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think newpipe will help with this since it still contacts the YouTube servers with your IP address.

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    • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can still use with vpn which means nothing using the YouTube site with vpn. Having an account simplifies the whole process too not even having to rely on IP address.

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  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That doesn’t necessarily mean your IP isn’t being exposed to YT.

    If that is something you’re concerned about, you should read the documentation of whichever pipe/front ends and services you use.

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    • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not concerned, but vpn can be used anyways. And it just gives me less incentive to bother using YouTube through official means. I already find the unofficial methods to be superior with adblocking, sponsorblock, background play, and being able to hide sjorts or trends from showing up.

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• Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not going to make any statement about the morality or legality of this, i’m just going to point out if they used this data to persecute people who still watch Vaush after he outed himself as a literal pedophile, the FBI would have way less work ahead of themselves.

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