August 28, 2021 by Maggie McNeill
How do we know it won't happen again? - Lacy Lennon
I Spy (#930)When it comes to mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down:
Business As Usual (#1011)Google received more than 20,000 geofence warrants in the US in the last three calendar years...[this fascist surveillance technique allows cops to] carve out a specific area and time period and [demand]...information about the devices that were present during that window. The information is anonymous...[until cops demand more details, at which time]...Google [happily violates] those users' [privacy]...In 2018, Google received 982 [such] warrants. The following year, it rose to 8,396. Last year, it jumped to 11,554. In all, Google received 20,932 geofence warrants...since 201[8]...
The media are still downplaying the crimes of this psychopathic rapist-murderer cop:
Pyrrhic Victory (#1012)A federal judge has set a new trial date for a [typical and representative] Columbus...vice [pig who murdered a sex worker when she wouldn't submit to rape]...Andrew Mitchell is [only being] charged with...federal [conspiracy and perjury-type crimes even though]...he...had [a long history of raping] prostitutes...Mitchell also faces state charges [ for shooting 100-pound] Donna Castleberry [eight times at point-blank range] after she [fought back] during an [attempted rape by] Mitchell, who has [described the wanton murder of a woman half his size]...as self-defense...
How is this surprising when TikTok is owned by the Chinese?
Policing for Profit (#1096)TikTok has quietly expanded how much information it will collect from its more than 100 million users in the U.S. to include "faceprints and voiceprints." In response, [US politicians want a piece of the action]...The U.S. does not have a federal law regulating the tracking of biometric data by technology companies, but...TikTok...is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese [company owned in part by the Chinese government, which also controls 1/3 of its board]...Earlier this year, TikTok paid $92 million to settle dozens of lawsuits [in response to] the app['s]...harvesting personal data...including...facial recognition...without user consent. That data...was [shaed with Beijing] and sold to advertisers in violation of state and federal law. In 2019, TikTok was fined nearly $6 million by the Federal Trade Commission for [violating] the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires apps to receive parental permission before collecting a minor's data. The Trump administration['s attempt]...to ban the app was abandoned by the Biden administration in June ...
No matter how little their victims have, cops will steal it and fuck up their lives in the process:
The Prudish Giant (#1104)The city of Longmont [Colorado] has [finally] paid the $1,592.72...toll bill [the state tried to stick] a [disabled] woman [with after]...a [city cop named Stephen Schulz stole her] license plate...and put [it] on his [disguised pigmobile]...Debra Romero...[was] left...without the use of a vehicle...[because] the [state]...refused to waive the toll charges even after Romero filed a report...declaring her license plate as stolen...the state of Colorado [also] barred her from renewing her registration until the toll bill was paid...the city [didn't care about Romero's plight until]...the...situation [made the news]...
Facebook can't even follow its own "standards":
To Molest and Rape (#1165)A poster for Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's new film Parallel Mothers... was [censored by Facebook-owned] Instagram for depicting a lactating nipple...[after public outcry] Instagram...reverse[d] its censorship...[but] given Instagram's exception for artistic context, the rationale for the poster's initial removal remains unclear...
Notice how often predatory cops' victims are underage?
A [typical and representative] Massachusetts [cop] has been arrested on child pornography charges...Francis Hart...[was caught] upload[ing] a file with numerous images of child pornography...
I'm not sure what will happen here; Massachusetts cops who forcibly rape actual children get less than one year per victim, or no penalty at all plus being rewarded with a powerful cop gang position for repeatedly raping children of both sexes for decades. But Massachuseets puritans are very uptight about porn, so who knows?
Those who shift with the wind can be counted on to continue doing so:
OnlyFans says it has suspended a plan to ban sexually explicit content following an outcry from its creators and advocates for sex workers...the planned ban was "no longer required due to banking partners' assurances that OnlyFans can support all genres of creators"...[however, an authoritarian circle-jerk made up] of over 100...[politicians are still howling for sex workers' blood, cit]ing the[ir own disgusting fantasies about]...sex...with children ...
