“I mean, I don’t condone violence in any way, shape or form.”
I have seen your posts before intheflow 
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Even without that disclaimer no one could seriously think you condone violence. And even with that disclaimer if someone wants to pretend maliciously that you do or have “issues” and need monitoring, they will pretend that.
The tools that are truly radicalising people and causing mass violence and anger are unchecked - too lucrative. YouTube alone sends so many people into conspiratorial landscapes you or I couldn’t imagine, while it is “paranoid” to think “hey maybe all these nice surveillance oligarchs and data miners are not entirely cuddly and cute”.
People who publicly clutch pearls, preach and finger-wag over them and throw bogus “studies” and non fixes without shutting the damn shit off don’t want that stuff to stop for the most part.
And many of us reflexively and anxiously reassure the powers that be (and any other fascist humpers, sycophants, overlords and order-keepers) of our various virtues and harmlessness.
I don’t mean you btw intheflow ;-/ (though you have been the unfortunate recipient of a low-key seething rant)..I just meant the effect these guys have. Cynical to the core..
It is close to 20 years into social media and more broadly the internet.
Except some people who genuinely read human personality somewhat less intuitively, most humans have a sense of personality, “behavioral predictions” (to use the kind of language that I roll my eyes over) etc. Yes sometimes things go surprisingly, but monitoring large numbers of people for no reason at all has nothing to do with safety or health. It is simply too profitable.
Free Luigi..
Jail Musk, Marc Andreessen, the remaining Koch (old fashioned), Horowitz, Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg, Musk, Nadella, Pichai, Andrew Witty, Larry Page (also in the Epstein files), Alex Pentland (MIT Media Lab formerly Epstein linked), Sergei Brin, Alexandr Wang, Jack Ma, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Ambani, Adani, Mahindra, Pavel Durov (actually I think that one already happened. I am trying to be “inclusive” in billionaire jailing and off the cuff don’t know any other Russian oligarchs, since I too have a very America-centric news palette for someone who lives half the world away), Wojickis, Sheryl Sandberg, Clare Wu, etc.
I don’t even know the names of the various parasitic factory farming (the regular kind not tech creep Panopticons) magnates or the fossil fuel parasites.
The general population ..well okay me anyway..is getting restive…Jail the creeps/oligarchs/billionaires..Free Luigi.
Copious amounts of unnecessary data collection will not give the people who see what they want to see any insights into human nature or human behavior. But it wastes a lot of time and energy and makes your life and mine hell and maybe that is all that matters to these rapacious and parasitic industries…
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