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Tag: fascism

  • Hate thy Neighbor as Thyself

    Timothy Snyder · Thinking about…

    Then said JD unto him, Go, slay, and curse.

  • Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas

    Mario Trujillo · EFF

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    [DHS] has issued subpoenas to technology companies to unmask or locate people who have documented ICE’s activities in their community, criticized the government, or attended protests.   

  • With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

    With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

    Jason Koebler · 404 Media

    Ring had always, explicitly been intended to assist law enforcement. In a series of investigations we did back at VICE (mostly written by Caroline Haskins, who is still covering surveillance at WIRED), we uncovered thousands of pages of documents, emails, and chats via public records requests and leaks that highlighted Ring’s surveillance ambitions. The company threw parties for police, employees wore “FUCK CRIME” shirts to internal parties, and helped police facilitate the retrieval of footage from its customers’ cameras if they initially refused to cooperate.

    . . .

    With Ring’s recent partnership with Flock, which will further facilitate the sharing of video footage with police, and its new Search Party feature, the message is clear: Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers as a law enforcement tool.

    404Media.co screenshot. Article title, "With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet". Subtitle, "Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism." Meta, "Jason Koebler · Feb 10, 2026 at 10:05 AM " Picture below shows surveillance camera image and a recognized object, a dog with a green rectangle around it and the label, "Milo Match."

  • Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism

    Schneier on Security

    The mighty Bruce Schneier breaking down the existing data about us, how it’s collected, how it’s used and what you personally might want to consider given your situation.

    Compute technology is constantly spying on its users—and that data is being used to influence us. Companies like Google and Meta are vast surveillance machines, and they use that data to fuel advertising. A smartphone is a portable surveillance device, constantly recording things like location and communication.

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    What’s different in a techno-authoritarian regime is that this data is also shared with the government, either as a paid service or as demanded by local law. Amazon shares Ring doorbell data with the police. Flock, a company that collects license plate data from cars around the country, shares data with the police as well.

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    Imagine there is a government official assigned to your neighborhood, or your block, or your apartment building. It’s worth that person’s time to scrutinize everybody’s social media posts, email, and chat logs.

  • One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

    M. Gessen · NYTimes

    Ask anyone who has lived in a country that became an autocracy, and they will tell you some version of a story about walls closing in on them, about space getting smaller and smaller.

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    The only way to keep the space from imploding is to fill it, to prop up the walls: to claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting. It’s what the people of Minnesota appear to be doing, and it’s something each of us needs to do — right now, while we still can.

    Screenshot of the hero of the article. Split in half 50/50. Left side has the title "one year of Trump. The time to act is now, while we still can." above that are "opinion" and the author's name "M. Gessen". Right side is a collage of photographs. The images are from the various events over the last year, musk, trump making a fist, military members, prisoners in a concentration camp, etc.

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  • 39C3 – A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

    Cory Doctorow · 39C3

    Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all of America’s trading partners from disenshittifying their internet: the US trade representative threatened the world with tariffs unless they passed laws that criminalized reverse-engineering and modding. By banning “adversarial interoperability,” America handcuffed the world’s technologists, banning them from creating the mods, hacks, alt clients, scrapers, and other tools needed to liberate their neighbours from the enshittificatory predations of the ketamine-addled zuckermuskian tyrants of US Big Tech.

    Well, when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla. The Trump tariffs are here, and it’s time to pick the locks on the those handcuffs and set the world’s hackers loose on Big Tech. Happy Liberation Day, everyone!

    We’re very much aware of Cory’s Enshittification concept. With everyone up to speed in this audience he’s able to chart the path out with the people who will take us there.

  • Fascism Expert Jason Stanley on the 5th Anniversary of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

    Amanpour and Company