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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fucking never. Never ever. I'd sooner cut myself off from all technology and live in the woods than willingly give those creepy fucks my middle goddamn name. There is absolutely nothing good that will come from this company. The people at that company literally fucking movie villains. It's fucking crazy that absolutely anyone works with them, let alone world governments.

These large scale surveillance companies like Palantir, like Flock, they shouldn't exist. They should be outlawed. Our government needs probable cause and a warrant to surveil a suspect. If a normal civilian followed you around and filmed you, kept track of you at all times, they'd be arrested for stalking. But for some reason private companies can just watch every man, woman, and child in public and online, catalog all our movements, where we went, how we went there, who was with us, track what we do, what we read, who we know, how we spend our time, what we say, etc., and then permanently log all of that, use it to form dociers on us, predict our behaviors, or desires, ways to manipulate us, and then turn around and sell that data to governments, other companies and private parties. How the fuck is that legal.

Why in the fuck would you ever allow a private, profit-driven company to have that kind of power over your nation, let alone reward it with federal dollars, long term contracts and access to our law enforcement and military data and systems?

Worse, the founders and CEO are unhinged wannabe dictators trying to form their own sovereign techno-states. They're not even secretive about that. And our goverment is fucking funding these nuts and giving them every detail of the lives of our citizenry, our goverment officials, our military... how fucking stupid do we have to be, guys? I wish I could say it's just Trump but it's not. It's mind boggling.

[–] roboticfireplace@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

I’m here because of this. 10 year old Reddit account deleted, app deleted, done over and out.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 173 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Those are weird places to mine data... are they specifically targeting young people?

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Well they have been for years with their late pal Jeff, so...

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[–] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 day ago

Fuck those fuckers

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fucking Peter literally creating the very monster he claims to hate.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They're trying to force it to happen. They somehow think they'll be spared and only the people they hate will have to suffer.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Is there any aspect of the police state that libs won't support?

Y'all have your fascist TikTok and bullshit age gates.

Enjoy your "AI" biometrics! Guaranteed chuck and nancy are making big money.

Liberalism enables fascism.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

does using Death Stranding still work because i'm not giving them my face

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I used a jpeg of Seether's drummer for my Google account and that worked.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's a great way to kill those products. That's maybe the only upside.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it?

Most people won't care and continue using it anyways.

I won't, for sure, but most people are fucking idiots when it comes to this stuff

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem is there are a lot of subreddits that are an excellent resource. As far as I know, there aren't any Blender help instances with a 100,000 people. I really wish there were.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 0 points 21 hours ago

Like it matters, since we are going to war with USA, straight up. Their data...will be useless, once in rubbles.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

If people cared about "the children" they wouldn't let them on the Internet until they were 21.

If people cared about humanity they wouldn't allow "the algorithms" to exist or let social media or news media exist they way it does now.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I don’t think that’s the solution though, kids (including teens to some extent) can be on the internet but it requires better parenting. It’s better to monitor what they are doing online until they are like 15 or 16, maybe 17 if you have a really good reason too. Limit screen time, be around to answer questions your kid has about what they might see.

Little kids though? Absolutely should be off the internet. Anyone under 10 shouldn’t be on the internet period in my opinion. 10-12 is kinda a gray zone to me where it’s definitely up to the parents and if they think their child is ready.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Also since they weren’t allowed on the internet till they were 21, those 21 year olds won’t know how to act on the internet. So now there’s 21 year olds roaming around who will need to figure all that shit out. They might get other aspects of being an adult but the internet will be completely alien.

It’s like when I saw people saying kids shouldn’t be allowed into the grocery store because someone was annoyed that kids didn’t know how to behave there yet. You just create a new and larger problem where adults don’t know how to act.

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

My nephew has a new baby. Her parents are constantly waving their phones in her face; sending pics back and forth; generally doing 'millenial things' with their phones when not actively attending the baby. Then proceed to get all freaked out when the baby expresses interest or curiosity in the phone.

Kids mimic their parents behavior and interests. If you want kids with healthy internet use, you have to have parents model healthy internet use.

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[–] WeavingSpider@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

"Compelled" *evil shojo laughing all the way to the delete button"

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Peter fucking thiel has too much money and is backing everything, for example PayPal and stripe that are processing 80% of e-commerce payments

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Thats going to finally break my reddit addition, and ill bet any amount of money im not alone.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

the API fiasco forced me off, so im glad I had a 2 year start on federation

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (13 children)

go through and edit your comments to be gibberish before you delete your acccount

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Theil should be removed from any authoritative seats he may hold, and then be stripped of his wealth to stop him buying our elected officials

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Also buried up to his neck in the desert.

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, or even maybe something more... Decisive...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 2 days ago

palintirs AI desperate need to get clients, so when the bubble burst they wont be hurt that much.

[–] ChadGPT2@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What is the lemmy equivalent for discord?

[–] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (7 children)

My kid wants to be verified on Roblox sooooooo bad so he can defend himself against trolls. It’s actually been a good lesson in ignoring those idiots like water off a ducks back.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess I'm compelled not to use Roblox, Reddit or Discord, then.

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[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago

when are they rolling that shit out on AI-slop-CSAM-central aka twitter?

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