KelvarCherry

fully agreed. I think the link for the "law enforcement surveillance" is broken. It just takes to a removed Bluesky "hashtag" for "NoKings"

Can't forget how a "safety volunteer" at a Salt Lake City shot at a leftist protecting the rally, hit a different participant, then managed to get the Leftist arrested despite him not firing his rifle.

USAmerican here. When was Silicon Valley good? It certainly was not during my lifetime. Mark Zuckerberg was spying on us well before the Trump administration. I recall watching Zuckerberg being made to testify by a panel of representatives in 2018 for actions well before the 2016 election. Well before the Crypto bubble and modern AI bubble, there was the dot com bubble. And these other leaders mentioned in the piece -- Bill Gates, Elon Musk... they were in Silicon Valley well before the 21st century. Silicon Valley corporations were among the earliest working to strip product ownership with all-encompassing legal agreements and forced arbitration. It's not that Silicon Valley "lost its way"; it Got it's way.

Absolutely. https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1 (second paragraph)

More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system.

I find these articles so irritating. They sound so tone-deaf, throwing around clinical terms to say people are sad, while refusing to even consider any solutions.

I wish they'd stop all this "mental health" fluff that is just toxic positivity or a call for it; but if the people were talking amongst themselves instead of getting shepherded into 1-on-1 counseling, they people might go from "I'm feeling sad" to "this world makes us sad" and change things!! oohohooooo so scary!! :O

oh, yeah, of course Musk's companies go on there.. and I saw a few things about Oracle's surveillance efforts.

Benny Johnson is a serious prolific MAGA influencer that has been invited out by the administration to cover Alligator Auschwitz in Florida. Benny's podcast was also why Jimmy Kimmel's show got suspended - a member of this Republican administration made a veiled threat about Kimmel on Benny's podcast and that is why Disney took the show down.

What happened to "Don't share your real identity online"? Oh.. Social Media.

Well before the UK online ID laws, I saw some memes about people getting asked for ID as proof of age for NSFW servers, just to send to server admins. I figured it was a ID fraud scheme of some sort, but now I'd chalk it up to manic "protect the children" believers.

Have you seen the USA? UK? Russia? China? I really don't want the government making any system to tie internet to any identity. I really don't want any government having any role in the internet.

So if we ever take back this country, we've gotta destroy Palantir, Apple, Google, Meta, Disney, Microsoft, Amazon, CVS (working to compile a medical database on all USAmericans)... and every company that backed Trump's Nazi campaign. Start making a list now. The corporations alone will be a life's worth of work.

My fear is that, in the event that we get a fair 2028 election, Gavin Newsom will be pioneered as the golden child, as Joe Biden was in 2020 -- drowning out the actual Leftist voices. Then those progressives are pressured to drop out because this election is sooo important. Cue a Newsom presidency where we get 4 years of macro-economic recovery while the common folk suffer, and then the cycle repeats.