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Sweeping Cyber Security Order (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The sweeping directive, signed Thursday, covers a range of topics including securing federal communications networks against foreign snoops, issuing tougher sanctions for ransomware gangs, requiring software providers to develop more secure products, and using AI to boost America's cyber defense capabilities, among others.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

using AI

so close and yet so far

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yes, I'm sure random commentors on the internet know better than the NSA what an appropriate use of AI is when it comes to cyber security...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“ChatGPT, is this spam?”

[–] TriflingToad 8 points 1 day ago

"No. That is a copypasta, not a meat replacement. I can give you recommendations of recipes for copypasta and spam dinners if you would like 😊"

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh hey, it's literally requiring the government agencies to do the exact same thing we have been doing in the corporate space these past several years.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Sounds like less than that. I read it as self-attestation for the most basic processes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I was thinking to myself “so they just have to keep doing what they’re doing” but my second thought was more in line with your comment.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What about privacy and actual freedom of speech or curtailling corporate cyberintrusion into oir lives? Any of that?

[–] Kecessa 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You have freedom of speech where the government can give it to you, stop expecting freedom of speech on platforms owned by private interests, that's not how freedom of speech works.

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

The elephant in the room with statements like this is that many communication enabling technologies are more akin to utilities. Where that line is and how close to utilities they are is debatable (do we include things like Twitter? Or just low level stuff like email. Are they utilities or merely similar to them?). Especially when you consider their necessity to operate in modern society and impossibility to rebuild yourself from scratch.

I get your point. I'm not trying to suggest corporations should be forced to allow 100% actually true free speech on their platforms.

[–] Kecessa 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shitter can censor you all they want, they have zero obligation to allow you to say whatever you want as it's a privately owned website. You can run your own website and say what you want on it though, just like you can put whatever message you want on your car or on your front lawn and people are free to read it or ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Look, I genuinely get what your saying, and I'm not saying people should be allowed to say whatever they want on Twitter. I'm certainly not saying the first amendment protects them. I'm just saying a lot of forms of online communication are critical in today's society.

Like, if I got banned from Twitter for saying I dislike Elon Musk, does that sound okay? I know it's currently legal, I'm not saying it isn't. But it certainly feels like an unjust restriction of my speech. Not "free speech" in the protected first amendment sense, but certainly "free speech" in the sense that people should generally be allowed to say things. The response of "just build your own website and you can say what you want" is missing the point of the reach and power massive websites have. When people say "big tech restricts free speech" this is the sort of thing they're trying to get at, but it sounds wrong because "free speech" is a pretty loaded and ambiguous term. Treating everyone saying free speech as if they mean something about the first amendment feels disingenuous to me.

And again, let me be perfectly clear, I'm not trying to insinuate that everyone should just get free reign to post whatever hateful content or misinformation they want wherever they want. I'm just saying that private companies being able to silence you on a global scale with no recourse or way to protest it feels very wrong. I don't have a solution and don't know where the line should be, but corporations shouldn't just be able to gag people arbitrarily.

[–] Kecessa 1 points 14 hours ago

I get your point but society decided it would rather have private interests managing social media so 🤷

Decentralization is one solution though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Buy your free speech, just 16$ per month! No being mean to Elon allowed!

Even the nazi had free speech if you keep it in your.

What a farcical and useless understanding of "free speech" you have.

"It's not censorship when Elon does it"

[–] Kecessa 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's exactly how it works though. You can say whatever you want on the sidewalk, once you enter a store it's the store owner that decides if they allow you to say what you want to say.

You can say what you want on your own website, if you say it on someone else's website they can censor you all they want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Oops a billionaire just bought the city square. Enjoy your complimentary freedom in the designated free speech zone. Just don't protest annoyingly...

[–] Kecessa 1 points 14 hours ago

Ok buddy, keep on trolling 👍

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Freedom and privacy were cancelled with Citizens United. I suggest you take up your concerns with the corporate dictatorship who doesn't give a shit.

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

What shall I write on the casings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Agreed. I'll fix that. Thank you.