Very unmeritocratic society if you can just win by inheriting half of 20 billion dollars.

Because all that wealth gives the person an outsized ability to influence government. See the 2024 US election cycle for numerous examples.

I would love it if there were a part of the internet where a) one person = one account and non-person accounts were somehow labeled. Kind of how south korea does it. But you know, better.

And b) i could block that one person on each platform with one click on all my accounts, including screenshots of their posts.

In real life i know the person talking to me is a unique individual and not one of several duplicate persons bc of physical limitations.

Wishful thinking: we are reaching that point where AI could solve this instead of AI just making the issue worse.

We could call it a cost cutting measure to save the taxpayer billions in unnecessary legal fees and settlements.

> How will he "try that"? He hasn't done anything illegal and, if he does, his own staff and the courts will prevent him from doing it.

Are we talking about convicted felon donald trump or some other guy?

I think, at one point in time, it was also completely legal to break into computer networks because there were no laws against it.

I appreciate the technical achievements here. However, I wonder how long before it’s standard practice to track all peoples movement, not just those suspected of a crime. I know of at least one YouTube channel that is always recording all traffic camera streams in Washington so there must be some State entities doing the same. Back in 2020 there was a twitch channel that would play a 9x9 grid of all the livestream footage from the George Floyd protests. I’m sure an archive of that exists somewhere on a LE server.

Politicians all across the globe know and utilize this concept

Because we are “free” to “choose” who we do business with. Nevermind that many essential services are run by legal cartels.

And Tmobile has more lobbyists than you do. But you, an individual, are also “free” to lobby the government as much as you wish.

Thusly, the system is fair and balanced on paper.

I mean from the point of view of McDonald’s I mean Disney no no the tobacco companies, it was probably idea of the year.

You sound like a stalin era communist. The secret police are spying on you for your own good!

Not sure what you mean. Gathering evidence is a vital part of investigating criminal activity. In the age of the internet, this includes evidence generated on computer networks, such as connection metadata from distributed systems like Tor.

Why, in your view, is this akin to Stalinism? It's just standard police work adapted for modern technologies, not an indication of totalitarian governance.

Because it exceeds the ruleset mutually agreed upon when it comes to the methods.

There was a gentleman named Edward Snowden who worked at a law enforcement agency called the National Security Agency, or the NSA for short. They operate in the United States of America.

The United States of America is a democracy, and has an agreed upon system in which the populace has a say about the rules their society must follow. These are called laws. American people and institutions are expected to follow these laws.

Pc is referencing the leader of a regime called the USSR. The USSR did not practice democracy, and it's agencies did not have to abide by the laws of the USSR.

The reason American law enforcement agencies are being compared to Stalinist (USSR) ones is because the aforementioned gentlemen Edward Snowden proved that, not unlike the USSR, American LEAs do not follow their countries laws either.

Does that make sense? I'm happy to clarify further, knowledge is power and I seek to empower those around me (y)

Edward Snowden is a Russian agent who sought to damage USA intelligence agencies as much as he possibly could, disingenuously framing it as whistleblowing.

It's unfortunate that many people, such as yourself, have been taken in by his story and don't see the bigger picture.

Also, gathering metadata on Tor usage to break anonymity is not actually against any law. It'll be done within the legal framework that permits collection and analysis of intelligence data.