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[–] ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.org 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Got permabanned for up voting a post about ice having their secret identities found out as it was 'inciting violence'. Because law enforcement should be protected from public backlash as the piss on the Constitution and practice illegal acts on people, it seems to reddit mods.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wtf you can be banned for upvoting?

Yup, Reddit has gone full mask off in the past year now. Spez is a known nazi simp.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I got permabanned for comparing israel to the Nazis. Fuck Reddit.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago (11 children)

It's a good thing I got permanently banned from Reddit just for saying "gill o' teen". Like this is America, it's free speech.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got banned for updooting comments about Luigi...

(Free Luigi!)

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I got banned for racism ... for making fun of a non-existent race. And the whole point of my comment was to mock racism itself.

[–] Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Fucking Cardie spoonheads. They totally fucked Bajor.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

sounds like they use AI to do it, probabably hallucinating assuming TOS violations.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

They ARE using AI for this. Crap AI that bans innocent and ignores the one who should be banned.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Banned as well, but I said we should all be able to punch Nazis. If you're sitting at a table of 9 Nazis, you're the 10th.

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[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

These newsletters come out all the damn time and are relatively easy to get signed up for these Fusion Center briefs. You can generally apply if you have at least a remote level of need for them either through physical security, or cyber security.

They're typically based on SAR (suspicious activity reporting), so they're essentially briefs and generally tip guides about things that might be happening in your state or area. All those tips that you send via tips.fbi.com or similar tend to make their way to your local fusion center. They get marked down for relevant current political climate stuff from multiple agencies, typically include thwarted terrorist events or online calls for action, and will usually training available.

While most of the info in these newsletters are For Official Use Only, there's a lot that might straight up be publicly available which can still be shared under the CUI Program. You just can't share the entire document itself since it's typically unclassified, but that doesn't mean you can share it publicly. Parts of it maybe, it'll tell you which parts you can. It's similar to Traffic Light Protocol for any CISA stuff if you get those. TLP Clear is capable of being publicly released. Everything else has some sort of limitation.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm certain the Reddit management allowed the tracking.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Of course, any time your information is on a privatized network you might as well just assume it's for sale.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I used reddit for over a decade, but I was never willing to buy reddit gold or support it because I didn't trust any site where I shared my political opinions to have those opinions tied with by real name or any other billing info. Same with discord. At least with lemmy, you can support it without tying it to your account.

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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 20 points 1 day ago

Homeland security if you are reading this shame on you! you are working for a pedophile!

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Is that why reddit was IP blocking people from seeing content even though they weren't logged in?

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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 day ago

Notorious terrorist, Budget Chicken.

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

Reddit is State Department agitprop. This leak is probably a tiny fraction of their operations on reddit.

It's crazy how successful that platform is because nobody suspects it. Redditors all hate the other social media platforms. They cannot fathom that reddit is just as bad or worse.

But why is that. Is it the illusion of control. Because ostensibly its a user curated site. Because they think they have voting power. All of these things have proven to be completely false time and again. Yet the illusion of reddit persists.

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

While I agree that Reddit is awash in (multiple) state propaganda, and that posting violent rhetoric, or even sympathy for it, there is likely to put you on a list (or multiple), I don't think Reddit users really trust it's that safe. In the last year and a half, since Luigi, there has been huge amounts of bitterness over the censorship of content and strict banning policies. People have discussed, and followed through on, leaving in droves. Huge amounts of old content are no longer available because people scrubbed their post history on the way out.

If the current discourse doesn't reflect that, I would suggest it's because :

  1. the real people still there remain to discuss uncontroversial niche topics
  2. political discussion there is largely driven by bots and paid actors now
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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

They're not anti-ICE, they're anti-abuse. If ICE chooses to abuse, ICE chooses to become a target of everyone who opposes abuse.

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Budget-Chicken-2425, waking up one day to find out the entire world is reading your FBI domestic terrorist dossier:

That's enough to radicalize a chicken.

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 195 points 2 days ago

They can gauge this: Fuck ICE.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Learned from growing up in a communist dictatorship: don't discuss politics and religion with strangers. And even with friends or acquaintances, don't discuss it in writing. It doesn't mean you can't have strong opinions, but don't make them public. Talking (not writing) one-to-one or in small groups eventually toppled almost all communist dictatotships, so there's absolutely no need to broadcast your opinions, unless your goal is to be martyred.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 100 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fascists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

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[–] jali67@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m a citizen so they can fuck off

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm not, but I also don't live there

So they can still fuck off.

Also I have free healthcare and consumer protection laws

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So if you do something like call for a protest you'll need to use a foreign VPN and a burner account.

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[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Reddit should bring back Ghislaine Maxwell as a mod

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

or allow gates to AMA again to "feelgood" about himself. they have been platforming gary sinese on reddit, he strangely frequent on the site. hes a right winger, trying to make himself look good by pretending, living vicariously through vets, he quite obsessively post about vets.

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[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 155 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Is Homeland Security chasing bots? Because that’s the bottiest name I’ve ever seen. If so, please continue. 🍿

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 127 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I find it odd, but a lot of newer users on Reddit go with the default suggested username and those follow the word-word-0000 template.

At the same time, it might be better for privacy to do that since it's less likely that someone can track you across platforms if you use the generator built into each platform.

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I did that with my new user. It’s easier to use an account for a year or two and burn it. I don’t care about the fake points. And I am not doing anything wrong. But if tou give a lot of oppinions it’s a lot of data for social engineering, so for privacy reason it’s a good practice to not be attached to any account.

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