pntha
@pntha@lemmy.world
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 16 minutes ago:
No, fuck you. If you want the left to win, stop using your emotions and start using your fucking brain. We’ll never kill fascism with people like you white-knighting around internet forums with out-of-context comments that do nothing but inflate your ego.
You’re never going to convince people on the internet with whatever this obnoxious discourse is. Get out of the house, get involved in some grassroots movements and turn your emotions into tangible results.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 27 minutes ago:
Agree; this could all happen, yes. What my original comment was trying to convey—and your reply adds to—is that the variables and complexities required to be maintained by X/Musk to ensure that the lie they are defending are hugely disproportionate to other operations that can field similar results. It is also an incredibly high-risk operation for X/Musk, in that a collusion operation of this magnitude risks global repercussions. The required amount of time, effort and resources against politicians or reporters wouldn’t be worth X/Musk’s investment when simpler techniques can be executed at lower risk and require far less resources.
It really just comes down to a cost/benefit/risk analysis. Do we start fake-posting official accounts and risk massive legal and public fallout? Or do we pay Putin $X million to spin up a bunch of bots and push a particular message that could sway public opinion in a similar direction, with very little traceable evidence and virtually no risk to X/Musk?
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 1 hour ago:
Did you even read the question? I’m answering in the context of the question. The question didn’t ask about “most people”.
Don’t come into one discussion in your silver armour and cry foul about a completely different discussion.
And, for fuck sake, stop being so fucking obnoxious. I’m a stout fucking socialist. It just so happens I can also critically think, which is a clear competency you lack.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 1 hour ago:
What I’m trying to convey, in the face of your obnoxious sarcasm, is that while the administration would of course interfere in what should be an objective investigation, politicians and reporters have a wealth of powerful advocates in their support networks. The administration can only control the message/investigation of the SS. They cannot control the message or investigations of the victim’s support network, however hard they may try.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 1 hour ago:
Let’s run a little scenario: a reporters post is doctored or posted completely outside of their control. Their boss calls them in:
“Did you post this?”
“No”
“Yeap, treason!”Please don’t confuse enthusiasm with critical thinking.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 2 hours ago:
Lock the account from being able to make edits
So, the victim watches their post publish. Acknowledges it’s been doctored. Attempts to edit. Receives some error. And shrugs it off and puts their phone away…? They’ll turn to the closest person with broader knowledge of IT and then it snowballs from there. And that timeline post-publishing would be sufficient evidence for reasonable doubt.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 2 hours ago:
How would the server admin know the real-time location of the victim to spoof the GPS coordinates? How would the admin know if the victim was with others who could verify they weren’t engaged in their device? How could the admin counter legitimate logs from other applications or services the victim might be using at the timestamp of the post?
There are far too many variables to be able to execute this successfully by professionals, let alone a bunch of IT staff.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 2 hours ago:
…the obvious flaw that said investigations would clearly conclude the posts were doctored?
The metadata of posts include too many data points (IP address, GPS coords, etc.) needing precise alteration in line with the exact movements of a victim that it would just be too complex to achieve a desirable outcome for Musk. Even if the SS’s investigations were subjective in their approach and/or conclusion, independent investigations would provide a trove of reasonable doubt, even if denied access to the data (which, in itself, would be a point of reasonable doubt).
- Comment on A Modern Australian Constitution; for the people, by the people 1 month ago:
what could the Australian constitution look like if written in 2025?
our constitution was formalised in 1900, a very different time period than our current age. though amendments attempt to modernise certain aspects of our constitution, the document remains an outdated governing structure for modern life.
here I interpreted a short draft of a constitution, written in the modern age, to imagine the fundamental laws that would govern the Australian people into prosperity for generations to come.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 2 months ago:
the UK being the only growth market speaks volumes