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How likely is it that the Trump administration will attempt to deanonymize online antifascists and leftists and imprison them? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pretty much the title. I certainly believe Trump, Maga, the Military, and the Police will, sooner or later, probably sooner, get around to at least attempting to deanonymize and round up online antifascists and leftists and imprison them. How organized and effective that attempt is I am less sure of.

To be very transparent, this is something I'm pretty sure I'd be on the hook for. I have a long log of anti trump, antifascist, left sentiments, and am 75% sure I'll be disappeared at some point in the next 4 years as I have no plans of shutting up. The only reason I'm not 100% sure is because of how expensive it would be. But hey, maybe it's less expensive than potentially losing power? So I don't know.

Never? Not likely? Maybe? Very? Extremely? Definitely?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

get around to at least attempting to deanonymize and round up online antifascists

They already know exactly who you are. People dont understand how pervasive online surveilance and profiling is. AI makes it simple to compile dossiers on everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah yes, as always, the ever-knowing magical AI. Because all the secrets of the universe can be aggregated using just few multiline prompts to the ChatGPT.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not chatGPT. But AIs are good at one single thing and that is pattern recognition. And there is a lot of data to train and use those AIs on. Decades of data from your PCs, phones and tablets is on NSA servers. And yes, the NSA did shit like recording you through your notebook camera or recording your phone calls with your first girlfriend.

AI will probably never replace human workers/engineers/artists/..., but sorting through your online history is exactly what AIs excel at.

Also Dragnet policies are used by the police for a long time now. This is pretty much just that. Imo the main question is more if they want to burn that data on this task, because once they do this some people will adjust and it will get harder to get new data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Can we all take a moment to consider the very real information the NSA has on trump and how they are doing nothing about him?

The alphabet boys must be tired of lurking in the shadows.