Yeah, that's some Gestapo level business... or since they don't like that word, Stasi.
As in, there were loads of people in the DDR (East Germany, 1949-1989) whose job it was to read people's personal mail, along with the network of neighborhood snitches.
It’s pretty clear that ICE is the seed of a paramilitary force.
So if they are using information people freely share to social media sites as the seeds for their investigatory and enforcement actions it follows that there is a simple trick people can employ or minimize their effectiveness.
Nationwide secret police with paramilitary capabilities only answerable to a few people in the executive branch? Completely unconstitutional, violating all the clauses on warrantless searches, detention without trial, etc.?
Looks like ICE should be abolished and its entire staff fired, just have INS take over all immigration issues.
Given how many accounts online are bots or anonymous, will they ever be able to shake out which real people which personas belong to? Or will it be a case of "we said this is you, so that makes it you"?
Hold, citizen, you shall be arrested for your impure thought. By masked goons.
I guess I had always just assumed this was the case for quite some time. Or I should say "someone" in the govt was always watching...not necessarily ICE.
Palantir can help with that
That would create the risk of people generating, hundreds and thousands of fake profiles and giving ice the runaround, wouldn’t it?
The social media companies must dislike this as it'll make people even less likely to post anything
Gotta spend that gigantic funding on something that furthers the party's agenda.
Why is this flagged??
Any creative chaffing or deception ideas?
That this post got flagged, and was allowed to stay flagged (as far as I can see) is one more excellent example of the selective idiocy of the moderators on this site, or if not their idiocy, than tacit support for dampening certain narratives. It's very much a tech-related post, that talks about a very worrying authoritarian digital surveillance tendency, and it gets flagged on a site that calls itself "hacker news"? Get the fuck out of town.
The US is going down the gutter, it's sad and pathetic.
Yet another reason to dump Twitter, Meta, Tiktok and other social sites.
People can always go mack to USENET and IRC if they want to make it hard to be tracked :)
What happened to all those 2nd Amendment conservatives who needed their guns to protect us from the governments jack booted thugs?
America's Gestapo
Some people: "Great, this will help them get criminals and other bad people off the street."
Some other people: "More fascism. This is Trump's version of the SS. It's absolutely horrible and we are doomed if this continues."
The world continues to spin.
And of course it's flagged. Because the use of technology built from companies funded by VC has nothing to do with Hacker News and Ycombinator.
Dang and company are such a joke (yes, that's a direct violation of the rules, maybe it'll get their attention) for allowing these sorts of stories to be flagged.
The idea that this is only about "politics" or it's "controversial" and thus should be hidden from view is such a copout. These are the important stories that should absolutely be discussed in a place like this.
Save your breath in replying: "well, it might make people upset and we want to have nice conversations here." And whatever other platitudes arguing for censorship of obviously important topics that deal directly with the technology, companies and employess that frequent this site.