It’s probably some bait, but I think the majority is nearly legitimate. People post a lot of stupid shit on the Internet. Look at all the morons who post threats and pics/vids of criminal behavior on Facebook, under their own name.
I also can’t fathom the amount of data they have to sort through. There’s real people in the places they say they are, the fake accounts claiming to be in one nation but are across the world, bot farms, and the weaponized accounts of foreign countries trying to stir shit up abroad. I think this is part of the drive behind AI, law enforcement, as big and powerful as it is, genuinely can’t police the internet and quickly identify legitimate threats to its power. I’m sure they’ve made some advancements, they do have a robust surveillance state, but they can’t use it to the capacity they want. So in the meantime they hype the boogeyman but instead of a monster in your closet it’s a bunch of rats pretending they’re scarier than they are.
This is why I’m bullish that federated, encrypted, cellular trust networks are going to be such a critical tool. Discussing revolution on a monolithic service is easy pickings. Not so much when the service supporting the movement is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere.
The communication arms race will never end and if the worst comes to fruition, the simplest, closest methods will be key. It’s wonderful we can now network and chat with people on the opposite side of the planet, but when shit hits the fan that doesn’t mean much for most of us. I’ve been glad to see zines and slaps make a comeback. Best of luck trying to get your AI to figure out who’s dropping manifestos they punched out on a typewriter.
It’s probably some bait, but I think the majority is nearly legitimate. People post a lot of stupid shit on the Internet. Look at all the morons who post threats and pics/vids of criminal behavior on Facebook, under their own name.
I also can’t fathom the amount of data they have to sort through. There’s real people in the places they say they are, the fake accounts claiming to be in one nation but are across the world, bot farms, and the weaponized accounts of foreign countries trying to stir shit up abroad. I think this is part of the drive behind AI, law enforcement, as big and powerful as it is, genuinely can’t police the internet and quickly identify legitimate threats to its power. I’m sure they’ve made some advancements, they do have a robust surveillance state, but they can’t use it to the capacity they want. So in the meantime they hype the boogeyman but instead of a monster in your closet it’s a bunch of rats pretending they’re scarier than they are.
This is why I’m bullish that federated, encrypted, cellular trust networks are going to be such a critical tool. Discussing revolution on a monolithic service is easy pickings. Not so much when the service supporting the movement is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere.
The communication arms race will never end and if the worst comes to fruition, the simplest, closest methods will be key. It’s wonderful we can now network and chat with people on the opposite side of the planet, but when shit hits the fan that doesn’t mean much for most of us. I’ve been glad to see zines and slaps make a comeback. Best of luck trying to get your AI to figure out who’s dropping manifestos they punched out on a typewriter.