Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.
Make a fake one that posts like… idk post random tech stuff that you could be reasonably interested in. Make nothing critical of authority. As a decoy profile.
Then you can rant about big brother on an anonymous Lemmy Account over TOR.
If you don’t have social media you must be “hiding” something and will be denied entry.
My US visa officer: what do you mean you did not have ‘social’ media accounts in 5 years? No, these weird sites don’t count. Underground terrorist? Straight to gulag.
“I don’t use social media”
Sure why not, since my name is Anthony O’Neill. You can find my short form username: Anon.
What could they find? I bet I’m save.
I’m betting on the opposite problem,
We show here you’ve been VERY active. Please have a seat in this chair until we come for you.
You can find my short form username: Anon.
What could they find?
Yes, what possible community full of people named “Anon” could they find that would get you in any amount of trouble?
Oh well, I wouldn’t have been welcome anyway, seeing I’ve had the audacity to be critical of Israeli
genocidedefense, TACO and Daddy Put-it-in.Guess I’ll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.
This is why I’ve already deleted basically everything, social media is a cancer that pushes us further and further apart and replaces meaningful interactions with vapid and shallow counterfeit interactions, it’s a net loss for anyone using it at this point.
Meanwhile, you post here :P
“Have you ever attempted to overthrow a government by force or violence?”
Non-Citizen MAGAt: sweats profusely
No, we were actually liberating it from oppression.
I don’t think that matters.
It doesn’t matter if you are trying to overthrow, say a US Adversary like Russia or China, its still counts. I guess the logic is: If you are willing to use violence in [Insert Country Here], how do we know you wont try it here?
A lot of the initial supporters of a revolution/coup gets purged so they don’t become a threat to the new authority themselves. Like hitler and the S.A. for example.
MAGAt supporters are just useful idiots, if they successfully fully take over, those same supporters now become the new threat that needs to be purged.
if they successfully fully take over, those same supporters now become the new threat
Quite a few of the current crop of deputized ICE agents are MAGA goons from four years ago. So long as you’re actively doing the gruesome work of ethnic cleansing, you’ll be given a pass.
Good luck. NYS couldn’t even keep track of this requirement just for CCW permits.
Who TF wants to set foot in that shithole banana republic anyway?
Stuff your visa, and return the favor and stay TF out of other people’s countries.
That would be a welcome change.Every social media username? I figure most people are like me and lost most of them.
at this point, these companies would make a buck as lost accounts recovery services.
I mean they make you sign away your rights and tell them if you’ve ever been affiliated with any one who was in or if you joined a communist party. So this is just another layer on the shit cake.
I guess we can finally get clarification on whether or not forums are social media.
Imagine handing over a Hexbear username, lol
hey turns out our tech oligarchs are the ones spying on us and not the chinese, what a twist!
It’s both.
What are the Chinese going to do to you with your data Vs say the tech firm selling your data to insurance companies?
the evil ccp use your data to sell you cheaper commodities, the free west use your data to restrict your rights
Yeah and both of those are bad. Product dumping kills local businesses, like how the US sending clothes overseas kills domestic textile industries, and processed food aid kills farms needed for self-sufficiency.
lmao as if i could give a shit about petit-bourgeoisie going out of business.
Yeah, only megacorps and slave labor! Because fuck people owning the means of production, am I right?
Small shops aren’t the means of production but the profit extraction still operates through robbing wage slaves of the surplus value they create. The petite bougie bosses you’re trying to shill for are some of the most reactionary elements that go straight for fascism because it promises them protections from international capital (which is defined as a conspiratorial cabal unlike domestic capital hence their almost anti-capitalist rhetoric sometimes). They’re also some of the most cruel because they directly cheat employees that they know and interact with personally.
Yes, i want highly centralized production owned by the people not highly decentralized production owned by a multitude of petit-bourgeoisie. I want stuff to be abundant for everybody through mass production, not highly constrained by small scale production.
Better targeted psyops. Same the the CIA does.
I mean, if they are then you should be rooting for them. Your living conditions would skyrocket under Chinese hegemony
what psyops?
What do you mean “what psyops”? Are you unaware that both China and the US, as well as almost every other country around the world, conduct foreign influence campaigns?
And I’m sure I don’t need to give you examples of American campaigns. Most of Hollywood contributes.
Was really waiting for them to reveal how they knew this campaign was Chinese.
I can believe that it’s something China could do, but I’m not sure why I should believe this article’s assumptions without evidence provided.
I’d be more surprised if countries like the US, China, and Russia weren’t trying to influence each other.
are you seriously comparing actual cia psyops to this accusation?
It seemed like the best source available from a ten-second Google search while taking a shit, but I can nip down to the local CIA field office and pick up some classified ops docs if you want a primary source, I’m sure they make that info available.
can you please tell me how exactly chinese psyops will destroy the US? 'cause i can’t really see how anything they could would hurt the world.
would the chinese, perhaps, campaign for communism in the US? how could that possibly be bad?
