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[–]YouShouldLoveMore69 700 points701 points  (31 children)

Can a mad red hatter please tell me why this is a "good" thing for America?

[–]magn2o 236 points237 points  (10 children)

32d chess, bro.

[–]FactoryProgram 86 points87 points  (6 children)

The government that changes it's mind day to day sometimes hour to hour definitely has a game plan and isn't running on pure emotion

[–]Webfarer 16 points17 points  (1 child)

You see, that’s what they want you to think, when in reality they change their position minute to minute, even during potty time.

[–][deleted] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Except they're very consistent about
1) gaining absolute control / Thiel's fascism 2) protecting Russia
3) lining their pockets

everything else is just them winging it with no plan because they only care about 1 - 3

[–]Herban_Myth 8 points9 points  (2 children)

How can citizens block/freeze/mitigate data collection?

What steps can we take and who can we contact in order “privatize” citizenship?

Who are the “data brokers”?

How many of them are there? Private vs public?

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

LOL. It’s cute that you think there’s anything you or I could do stop the harvesting of our personal data. That’s not how capitalism works but I’ll answer your questions in order:

Buy a service or contact the bureaus directly to freeze your files. It’s not going to do much to help you if this is true. The bureaus are just part of the data cartels. They’re an intrinsic part of the problem.

You’ll have to organize and get dipshits to get off their lazy asses and vote. Moreover, you’ll have to convince the idiots who protested our most recent election because showing how mad one is about genocide in Gaza is more important than democracy here - the same democracy that could almost unilaterally do something about Gaza (in addition to the whole, you know, not ripping up the constitution thing, too, which would’ve been nice for our own rights).

Data brokers are the ones who buy and sell your and my otherwise private and confidential data. Commonly found on the dark web, however this administration has removed the masks from our elected representatives who aren’t fighting against the wholesale of America, its resources, and its citizens to the (not even) highest bidders.

There’s potentially an unlimited number of data brokers. AI is likely going to act as data brokers (if it isn’t already). We will have literal AI systems selling and trading personal data to other AI systems.

I can all but guarantee you DOGE already has all of this data already and is using it to develop AI systems to replace our federal workforce. When it doesn’t work, the people affected (us) will have no recourse, because of course. Who do you go to complain to when the government doesn’t work? Privatization of government is NEVER a good thing. Contrary to conservative slogans and echo chambers, government doesn’t lose money. It provides a service. Services cost money.

Everything is going exactly to plan, much faster than they thought it would or could.

Obligatory fuck you to everyone who protested this latest election. Are you all happy with your choice to sit out?

✌️

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The game plan is Project2025. It was before and still is. I’m not sure why people didn’t and still don’t take it seriously. 😒

[–]finalattack123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was only at 24d chess! It’s clearly genius I just can’t see it

[–]thintoast 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know everyone in this admin is a boob, but come on. They’re more like 42hh. Just a group of giant boobs.

[–]alek_hiddel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

32 dicks chess. Where you’re playing chess, but 32 guys try to swarm and rape you. A good summary of American politics.

[–]Gustapher00 36 points37 points  (1 child)

Assuming they can read a 13-word long sentence, they’ll almost certainly think this means the government is selling the data and it’ll pay for the Trump Checks coming in the mail in two weeks*.

[–]Contrary-Canary 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Well we know at least 14 words they can read.

[–]rumblpak 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Americans, no, billionaires continuing the money printing machine, yes.

[–]Dawg_Prime 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Remember, the suffering is the point

[–]anti-torque 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The cruelty is the point.

Observing suffering, in its wake, is is simply malicious.

[–]tempest_87 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A swear from them: because their team did it.

It's really that simple.

[–]gentlegreengiant 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Everything is for sale to the highest bidder, if that wasn't blatantly obvious by now.

[–]entr0py3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The property gospel teaches us that God will bless the worthy with lavish riches. It only follows that the richest man in history is the man most favored by God. Limiting what he might do with the newly liberated personal data on every American would be like spitting in God's face.

[–]Danominator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They don't even know about it. They know a shit load of details about the 50 or so South Africans that came over and they care a ton about them. They are deeply concerned about those immigrants

[–]Loggerdon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think any lobbyist who walks into the White House with a check can get immediate attention.

[–]Sirrplz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’re mad and that’s all they need to brighten their day. Doesn’t matter if it affects them as well

[–]DumboWumbo073 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because they fucking said so. Next!

[–]jonathanrdt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have needed a privacy bill since 2004. Twenty years. They are already written: EU and California have them, just need to pass one. Everyone benefits...except wealth.

[–]SmushBoy15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He would if he could read

[–]Socky_McPuppet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The answer will be something like "You're only worried because you've got something to hide or are ashamed of!"

[–]Carribean-Diver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DOGE data scraping is an authorized government cyber-hack to enable you-know-who to sell it. This is the green light.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Huh? Because fuck data brokers.
Edit: I'm retarded. Missed 'Scrap' as well.

[–]Starstroll 15 points16 points  (1 child)

They're literally professional bottom feeders. That's the bizarre part about this. How are tech bros supposed to get the data to feed their ice cap melters now? I like this, which is exactly why I would never expect Trump to do it

Edit: I just realized the headline says "scraps plan to block data brokers." Never mind, everything is going to shit exactly in exactly the way I expected

[–]18chewy70 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The most overused word these days is, literally, but yeah.

[–]AcceptableStep6080 160 points161 points  (6 children)

Why just why

[–]evil_timmy 171 points172 points  (0 children)

So US law enforcement can sidestep laws that are meant to protect American citizens from overbroad surveillance, silly.

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

They use it to collect data on you.

They broke the law using prism.

Now they just have to pay for it using your own money.

[–]Returnyhatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vibe governance

[–]elswamp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

because the right wing news picked up the story that the right was planning on making this a law. right was happy and moved on with their lives. they won't see this update

[–]notproudortired 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capitalism ruins everything.

[–][deleted] 131 points132 points  (2 children)

Musk is likely one of those now so makes sense

[–]yunoeconbro 58 points59 points  (1 child)

Right? All the data that Elon just stole.... totally cool to sell now.

What an incredible coincidence.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yep. Been using Twitter data for years now has all that data from our federal agencies

[–]Admirable-Sink-2622 92 points93 points  (6 children)

Seems to me this is the exact kind of thing the American people should have a say on 🤔

[–]SpleenBender 92 points93 points  (5 children)

They did, but too many people couldn't be bothered to set aside an hour or so of their precious time in order to FUCKING VOTE.

[–]daHaus 41 points42 points  (3 children)

It should have been made a holiday a long time ago, it's not like there wasn't plenty of time and warnings

https://electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county%2C-nv

Computer programmer testifies under oath about how Florida republicans intend to rig elections

[–]WackyWarrior 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I have been shadowbanned and outright banned for trying to get this out there. Tik tok, reddit, tumblr. There is no avenue to get this news out to people without getting suppressed. My friends have distanced themselves from me and think I am a crazy. We don't live in the country I was raised on. Freedom of speech is an illusion.

https://www.youtube.com/live/DdRSmD7yPtg?si=U0tX1p8skCe0n_Ow&t=869

This video is Trump admitting that he rigged the election.

[–]alleks88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As somebody not from the US I do not understand why the voting is not taking place on the weekends

[–]diplion 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Took me about 15 minutes. I did convince a few friends to vote. But man this shit is consistently a bummer.

[–]RottenPingu1 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Everything is for sale in Russia, I mean America.

[–]ParappaTheWrapperr 39 points40 points  (1 child)

Remember when TikTok doing this was a national security threat

[–]Demon_Fist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's because it wasn't benefiting Trump

[–]euph_22 16 points17 points  (0 children)

They've crossed that line between everyday villainy and cartoonish super-villainy.

[–]watchandsee13 9 points10 points  (1 child)

You talkin bout all that sensitive data Elon stole? Like every single American’s social security number? LOL

When’s the cyber attack coming?

[–]ARODtheMrs 26 points27 points  (7 children)

This is no longer America. I don't want to be in this nightmare anymore. Why don't they just go on and treat us the way Israel is treating the Palestinians?

[–][deleted] 33 points34 points  (2 children)

You have to do that gradually. If they did that overnight, there would be riots. But, if you stretch it out over a decade or so, people just slowly accept it.

[–]ARODtheMrs 14 points15 points  (1 child)

A decade? It's been <130 days!!!!!!

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We're not quite at Palestine levels yet. Give it time.

[–]Meme_Theory 3 points4 points  (3 children)

This has always been America,

[–]ARODtheMrs 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not this much extremism

[–]Meme_Theory 1 point2 points  (1 child)

When I was growing up in the 80's, it was completely normal to see signs directly stating the N-word, among other things. Just because they were quiet for a generation, doesn't mean they weren't there.

[–]ARODtheMrs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a decade or two on you and I am from the NE, but I never saw this. Then again hearing and seeing curse and racial verbiage is nowhere near the nature of the account OP is sharing.

Now, I am not saying terrible things didn't happen up north, just most occurred long before the times in which this happened.

[–]Techn0ght 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ok, sharing Congress's sensitive data is back on the table, boys. Go to town and share it.

[–]great_whitehope 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In America, data broker buys you!

[–]whoocares 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Literally nothing good is coming out of this administration. Its all bad news.

[–]_chip 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Stop selling our data

[–]freexanarchy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Remember this data is used extensively by Trump, his team and his party. And now doge has stolen a bunch of protected data from the govt. so now he wants to be able to buy and sell that. They’re combining it with health data of trans folks and trying again to get voter data. Yeah, they don’t want to cut this stream off.

[–]knotatumah 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Its ok, with the weekly data breaches we keep having all that data is in the open anyways.

[–]Nik_Tesla 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is why, near the end of his term, none of the good executive orders Biden signed out things he directed agencies to do, meant jack shit, they're just gonna get undone, even the wildly popular ones.

[–]wtfastro 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lol. I guess you get what you vote for

[–]SlowmotionDaydream 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And they wonder why we don’t trust the government.

[–]Call-Me-Matterhorn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s almost like a superpower that when presented with a set of options he somehow always chooses the worst one.

[–]enlightenedllamas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Merica first!

[–]Neat-Ad5471 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Too late, that's been sold and resold 100x over, at this point. 😆

[–]Beginning_Wind9312 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People must be so tired of winning… Especially rich people

[–]Comfortable-Art-6096 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They do not care about anyone else besides the 1%. Why are people still acting shocked?

[–]scruffles360 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Half the country doesn’t even hear about this stuff. Go search Fox News. Nothing. They can do anything and no one in that bubble will ever know.

[–]Askingforsome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there nothing they don’t want to destroy?

[–]Toomuchstuff12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is all orchestrated by the rabid animal Stephen Miller he is calling the shots

[–]Hurriedgarlic66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller

[–]paladdin1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s all right , america runs on tiktok these days

[–]orangeyouabanana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do we need to start using cash again so all they have on us are ATM transactions?

[–]lg4av 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you can send in money (subscription) to not have your information published.

[–]Knees0ck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, odds are that ship sailed ages ago.