brachiosaurus

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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz -2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Who is still supporting Trump? All the americans i've spoke to online and irl agree that he's an idiot. The majority of people who voted for him did because they deemed him the lesser evil candidate not because they actually support him.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 5 points 22 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

"You could read anyone's email in the world, anybody you've got an email address for. Any website: You can watch traffic to and from it. Any computer that an individual sits at: You can watch it. Any laptop that you're tracking: you can follow it as it moves from place to place throughout the world. It's a one-stop-shop for access to the NSA's information. ... You can tag individuals ... Let's say you work at a major German corporation and I want access to that network, I can track your username on a website on a forum somewhere, I can track your real name, I can track associations with your friends and I can build what's called a fingerprint, which is network activity unique to you, which means anywhere you go in the world, anywhere you try to sort of hide your online presence, your identity."

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to combine access to the sensitive and personal information of Americans into a single searchable system with the help of shady companies should terrify us – and should inspire us to fight back.

We should indeed fight back against the governments and corporations that for decades have been doing this shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disclosures