God Emperor Megathread (Trump and his presidency)

[rabidtictac]

Sometimes I forget that shitposting on DHI probably means I'm in a bunch of databases. The feds likely look for any forum with lax moderation rules so they can background check the kind of people who enjoy free speech.

[Kugelfisch]

Consider me the canary in the mine. As long as the powers that be don't take my guns for being severely racist on here, you've got nothing to fear. Well, that's not exactly right but you know, what are the chances that it hits me last?

[Keith Chegwin]

I was thinking the other day about how monopoly laws would have to be revisited for the digital era. Clearly privacy laws are already at that point.

[rabidtictac]

Privacy doesn't even exist when a prospective employer can demand your social media information.

[Keith Chegwin]

Yeah but there's a simple answer to that: Don't use social media
Employers/Prospective employers aren't the problem. The problem is the government and the social media companies, who store everything and can probably see your shit even if you delete it.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I'm pretty sure they're more interesting in modern social media as opposed to a tiny forum. Message boards are dying left and right, and twitter and Facebook already do the data mining for you.

Fourth amendment doesn't mean shit in the age of the digital Jew. American or not all your personal information that can be found is in over six gorillion government databases.

Didn't the Patriot Act basically kill the Fourth, anyways?

[Keith Chegwin]

I'm pretty sure they're more interesting in modern social media as opposed to a tiny forum.

Well, a lot of people use their real name on social media. Facebook won't let you use them if they suspect you're not using a real name. The result of this is that it's much easier to link people with accounts and posts than it would be for a forum account using a made up screen name. Therefore law enforcement's job is much easier and the information Facebook sells to third parties is more valuable.

[rabidtictac]

Yeah but there's a simple answer to that: Don't use social media
Employers/Prospective employers aren't the problem. The problem is the government and the social media companies, who store everything and can probably see your shit even if you delete it.

Anyone using DHI in the first place should be woke enough to not cuck themselves on social media.

It still pisses me off unreasonably every time I see a close relative use their full legal name as a fucking profile name for social media.

Is it that hard to put a fake name? It's not a matter of having something to hide or not. I'm more than willing to provide all my personal information to a proper authority, such as the cops, clerks performing background checks, the court or a bank. I'm not a sovereign shittyzen.

What I am not willing to do is give a bunch of egotistical cunts who have said multiple times that they feel no obligation to protect your personal info, loads of said personal info, which they will then sell to advertisers/whoever.

I don't care if the government has my personal info. They already have it. They've had it since I was born. If there's ever a cause to investigate me, they'll submit paperwork and bam! Instantly they have all my info from wherever it's stored. Social media companies are a lot more worrying, because these private cunts have no oversight. They're such a recent industry they can basically do whatever they want with the info they gather. For all I know, facefuck's Cuckerberg would sell ex-muslims' dox to family members/islamic governments that want to kill them. That's an extreme example to illustrate a point on how personal info can be abused.

The way I see it, employers and social media corporations are the ones to fear having your info. Both groups have demonstrated a history of abusing any personal info (beyond that which employers are legally required to have) they are given. How many times is someone's online activity, which happens outside of their place of employment, used as fodder to get them fired? It's the current year equivalent of filing a SLAPP suit. I cannot win an argument against you, so instead I take away your ability to feed yourself. How about atheists working at christian companies, who might be fired if their bosses knew? And I don't mean working as ministers. Just a typical shitty job.

Employers should not be allowed to pry into the social media activity of employees unless it expressly concerns their behavior during work hours or openly invites discussion of their company, such as claiming explicitly that the company "agrees with me" or whatever. We're opening ourselves up to an orwellian nightmare world where no thought can be voiced on any platform without the risk of being immediately fired.

I don't worry as much about a Count Dankula situation over here because burgers are not yuropoors. Satire and parody fall under free expression and PissChrist already exists.

[Keith Chegwin]

I don't care if the government has my personal info. They already have it. They've had it since I was born.

You're missing a lot of nuance.

Yes, the government has all the on paper facts on you. Birth records, Marriage Records, Education and Employment History, Tax Records. But up until now they didn't have the stuff between the facts. They might know where you went to school but they wouldn't know who your friends were at school. They might know where you work but they wouldn't know what you think of your boss. They might know whether or not you're married but they wouldn't know whether you're in a relationship, or whether your marriage is a happy one or if you're having affair. Basically, they know your information but they didn't know you. They didn't know how you think and feel.

Now they do. One of the reasons J Edgar Hoover was so controversial was so that he kept extensive dossiers on all the powerful people in America. All the eight Presidents he worked under. Vice Presidents, Politicians, Activists, Judges. Anyone powerful in America, anyone Hoover had a grudge against or just plain didn't like, he knew everything about them, how to blackmail them, how to hurt them. The FBI was his own private Gestapo. Now, thanks to the Internet and Social Media, pretty much everyone who's ever used a computer has unwittingly created for themselves a dossier just like one of Hoover's. Only a fool would think that today's intelligence agencies (particularly foreign intelligence agencies) are benevolent or in any way, shape or form more accountable than Hoover's FBI.

An employer (unless your employer is the government or a social media company) by comparison can only see what you show them. They can only hurt you if you let them hurt you

[rabidtictac]

Employers can hurt you at any time. Any public statement you ever make, or any statement made anywhere on social media or online, if it can be traced to you, can be thrown in your employer's face along with a demand to fire you. Which will most likely happen. An HR department is as able to google search employee's names and read social media as the government.

As I've said, demands that people be fired for holding non-SJW opinions are commonplace. They are our modern equivalent of a slapp suit. It's a nice way of end-running around the debate entirely. SJWs have no reason to engage in honest debate or to argue their cases. They can just demand you be fired if you question the narrative. And companies are full of HR cunts who will do so because they don't want employees who generate complaints for any reason whatsoever.

At least the government can only remove your freedom or income by process of law. In a capitalist society, removal of capital is removal of power.