Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? Given the expansion of the fed/state/local/corporate surveillance net, do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago? |
Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech? Given the expansion of the fed/state/local/corporate surveillance net, do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago? |
Imagine if every email provider had an option to "publicize" next to the ability to star an email or email thread.
It's the private, anti-free speech stuff that would be interesting to see up close. And I'm just talking about email communications.
Are you referring to anything in particular?
If anything, you're more free to "express yourself" now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSPM-7
Quote from the NSPM-7: > There are common recurrent motivations and indicia uniting this pattern of violent and terroristic activities under the umbrella of self-described “anti-fascism.” These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) as “fascist” to justify and encourage acts of violent revolution. This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization)
now that trump is president and X is a thing, i do feel much more free to express myself without worries
No, because five years ago was probably the high point of online speech restriction. A time where people were banned from platforms like Twitter and Facebook for expressing political opinions or stating scientific facts
I think it's very important to show the true American spirit of telling those, who think they are out betters, to just go fuck off.
We're ALL Kings here in the USA.
Calling out bullshit, praising hard work and artistic expression, and enjoying life all need to be balanced.
Sharing things I've learned, the Beauty I've seen, and admitting my mistakes are core to the way I operate these days.
Before they had an easy access to the data but the barrier was their capacity to go through it. Nowadays any middle manager with data access and an OpenAI subscription can potentially get a sentiment and summary of your public (or even private with some saas plans) conversations.
I’m more careful with my words than I ever was.
(This joke would be funnier if HN allowed unicode Full Block characters)
From the government, a little, but I think as a non-American in the US I was always a bit careful on that front. Better not to get in any trouble you know.
There are things I don't say online anymore, not because I don't think they're correct, but because my opinion could be deemed offensive.
Whenever I say something I think could risk being seen as offensive, I tend to add a lot of footnotes explaining my reasoning for the things I'm saying and why I'm not trying to offend.
I also never share remotely offensive humour to friends over social media or messaging apps anymore, which used to be fun. Lots of people have been arrested for jokes so just not worth it tbh. Even if I don't think it's that offensive the law is too subjective to take the risk.
And for things that might seriously attract the ire of people who consider political violence a positive good, there's always TOR.
OR. You want to say something about US oil and gas companies, or Israel. Those two things will get you scrutinised.
But obviously if you tried to organise protests during lockdowns, that's a different kettle of fish.
But if you start making some big posts about Woodside etc, you can have AFP knocking at your door.
I do wonder if I could automate the expression of uncontroversial opinions in the public sphere though. For example things about movies, music, or sporting events. These are valid interests that I simply don't have. I have at times been regarded with (I think) unfair suspicion for not engaging with social media to a meaningful degree.
The risk of being denied entry to US and my lack of interest in visiting US share a reason. That's the only change vs 5 years ago as far as governments are concerned.
As for corporate I've always assumed no internal communication was private.
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Even if what they're doing isn't legal, that doesn't stop them from potentially ruining your life in the process, maybe even getting away with it.
I'd rather the Chinese have my data over a US company because... what could they do? I live here, not China.