• DarkGamer@kbin.social
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    It seems like the US government is predicting that the rise of AI will become a national security issue. They’re right.

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      And oh darn, didn’t you know the only solution is permanent extension of and expansions to all the patriot act bullshit that has been violating our civil liberties constantly for 20+ years?

      Shucks. Welp, if it’s “for the children” or whatever excuse they use this time, I guess we have no choice!

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    Interesting. I wonder if this would restrict access to U.S. phone numbers by scammers if the phone service operators now have to identify who’s buying that access?

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      Nope. They’ll keep burning through the 9,999,999,999 phone numbers from outside the US but you’ll get indicted for a felony for purchasing VPN services outside of US regulations.

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        I mean I’m not answering the phone anymore if I don’t know the number, but hopefully my older relatives won’t answer the phone if they see it’s a foreign number, so that would still be an improvement.

        This doesn’t apply to foreign service providers, right? Since they’re not subject to U.S. laws? I thought most private individuals try to get VPN service outside the U.S. anyways to reduce the likelihood of the U.S. government finding out what was being done over VPN.

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          This doesn’t apply to foreign service providers, right? Since they’re not subject to U.S. laws? I thought most private individuals try to get VPN service outside the U.S. anyways to reduce the likelihood of the U.S. government finding out what was being done over VPN.

          Felony for purchasing unregulated services outside of the US. This is a slippery slope argument, but your VPN service in whatever country will be deemed as funding terrorism because they aren’t federally regulated. These laws already exist, they just waited to be applied to the political dissonants that don’t agree with the two party oligarchy.

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      This is not to protect the public so unlikely as their main goal is to punk us.

      Have you noticed how pedo clergy gets away with it but they keep saying they need to scan cell phone for child porn to kEeP KiDs SAfE

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        Not to mention Epstein was able to operate freely for decades while flying out high priority definitely-surveilled-at-all-times targets out to rape kids

        Make no mistake, intelligence agencies are every bit as complicit as Epstein himself, and they don’t give a flying fuck about “protecting” kids