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      The headline is to instill fear in those thinking of doing something. “If you’re thinking about it, we know and there will be consequences!”

      But we all know that dragnet surveillance is good at catching people after the act, not before. There’s just too much data.

      Anti Commercial-AI license

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      New metadata tag added to each individual’s archive. We already know thanks to Snowden that they’ve been collecting EVERYTHING and using it to effectively go back in time and retroactively monitor anyone they want.

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        I remember when this would just get you called a crazy conspiracy theorist. Then when it turned out to be true, nobody said anything.

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        I‘m guessing for now all this data is functionally useless since there is too much of it and you can‘t really differentiate between shit poster and actual threat.

        What I wonder though, if eventually some AI could predict future behaviour, like say they fed it digital footprints of those that go ahead and do something, could it spot those similar?

        Well, I hope I‘ll be dead by then cause I don‘t want to see the future police states at work, it‘s bad enough as it is.

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          Oh no that information is readily available, indexed, ready to be brought up at a moments notice as soon as they have someone new on the radar. They can crunch through that data very quickly to generate a threat assessment on a new person. For the government, the difference between trolling and real threat don’t matter, they treat them the same until you are about to do something. If you’ve ever made a joking threat about a politician on the internet, there’s a file open on you, it just may not have your name on it yet.

          It’s not about predicting, it’s meant to be retroactive once they have a person in mind. That’s what makes the data collection technically legal according to the courts, since no specific individual is being targeted by the mass data collection, no warrant is necessary. They can gobble it all up now, and sift through it later.

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    Oh, I know I am firmly on that list. Brian Thompson got what he deserved. It’s a shame it hasn’t happened to more of them.

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    Okay, we already know the spooks are already monitoring everyone. We’ve known this for a long time. They don’t have to come up with an excuse to try and tell us.

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    I referred to Luigi during a call with my SSDI attorney earlier today. I was shocked that she didn’t immediately get the reference.

    They turned down my application despite their own doctors saying I was disabled.

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    Saint Luigi of Baltimore, forgive us our debts. Deliver us from the greed of the Wicked. Protect us in sickness and in health. Lead us from the labyrinth of insurance denials. Bring Justice to the Merchants of Death.

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    I would be extremely concerned about anybody with positive views of health insurance, only slightly less so if they were directly enriching themselves off of it.

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    Oh, so this is the new scare! There’s already been the Lavender Scare, the Red Scare, the Satanic Panic etc.

    This scare will be called the Health Scare. Any other suggestions?

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    It would seem they have a conflict of interest. Choosing life or death for someone where not providing care would be less costly. Morality = / = legality.

    It would seem to make sense to allow the doctors to be advocates for their patients, but I get that oversight is needed too. It’s not an easy situation to solve. There are clearly glaring issues in the current system.

    In case it’s unclear murder is wrong if done by 1 person or a collective entity through an indirect series of actions.

    E: fixed formatting = / = Without spaces changes to equal and not ‘not equal’

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      There are doctors and organizations who scam the insurance, and this is used for justifying these systems being in place; however in the for-profit world especially these are increasingly used as a tool for profit rather than loss protections.

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        fun fact: insurance companies allow that to happen because its cheaper than preventing it and hilariously why there is less fraud via medicare/medicaid.

        so next time you hear that non-sense for an excuse know that it is false and entirely of their own making.

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    If you reach the end of your days, and you haven’t ever been on at least one watch list…Can you really even say you have ever lived at all?