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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content (www.404media.co)
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My family canceled our plan when they announced their investment in Helsing which makes AI weapons.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    High-tech western military investments in an age of Russian aggression is actually a good thing to do. And it's even European instead of US or Israel.

    I see no reason not to fully support this. Sure, a pacifist world would be awesome, but that would require a lot of things to happen that are not realistic at all. The alternative to european defense investments is not peace, it's death and oppression.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Weapons, but especially digital weapons, will always be turned upon their subordinate populace if it suits the oligarchy

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Perhaps, although when was the last time that happened in the west?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Literally all the time.

    Every major piece of tech in use by police domestically was built originally for military use. Every large police department in the US operates fixed-wing surveillance drones, stingrays/imsi-catchers, camera-based tracking systems, etc. All but the smallest departments receive tons of milsurp vehicles, weapons, and gear. Night vision and thermal imaging systems were military tech, and now they're standard for police. CS gas was military gear (until it was banned under the Geneva Convention), and now it's used exclusively by police.

    And that's just use of military tech against us by police. Get into domestic surveillance by 3-letter agencies, and it's even worse.

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