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Social Media for Kettling Activists and Campaigners

posted by n1 on Monday July 03 2017, @08:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the lambs-to-the-slaughter dept.

canopic jug writes in with a story which became:

Daniel Pocok blogs about the misguided picture that most people have over social media. These web sites turn out to be an effective means to monitor and control the population. One key point he makes is that the public ignores the ease with which social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, facilitate the effective kettling and surveillance of activists, campaigners, and other groups. He writes:

Facebook helps kettle activists in their arm chair. The police state can gather far more data about them, while their impact is even more muted than if they ventured out of their home.

And further down he asks,

Is somebody who takes pictures of you and insists on sharing them with hundreds of people, tagging your face for the benefit of biometric profiling systems, really a friend?

The addictive nature of these so-called services combined with the network effect make it really hard for people to escape, but the negative aspects really suggest that they should make the effort.

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday July 03 2017, @04:37PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday July 03 2017, @04:37PM (#534486) Homepage

    BLM are a bunch of violent shitheads and like Antifa are one of those groups that came out of nowhere, part of Grand Usurper-for-life Baraq Hussein Soetoro's plan to implement a globalist Operation Gladio within the United States. Although there is some degree of control, as with our "moderate rebels" overseas, these people are driven by violence first and ideology is secondary. Fortunately, Trump won, so these groups can no longer stay legitimate by intimidation and labeling everything "racist." Now they're relegated into the shadows and dismissed as jokes.

    BLM and Antifa don't have neither leaders or organizers -- they have handlers.

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  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Monday July 03 2017, @05:16PM

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Monday July 03 2017, @05:16PM (#534499)

    I can't help it, but every time I see BLM, I think of the Bureau of Land Management first. Land-use controversies come to mind, with Federal overreach as a theme. Mostly, it's armed standoffs with ranchers, even though there aren't many.

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