Hello,
I was with my brother and his group of friends, and one of his friends was talking about various drugs. My brother told him, “Shut up, you’re going to put us on a watchlist,” and he said it in a serious tone. It felt pretty dystopian when he said that; honestly, it was a bit eerie, mostly because he’s being controlled and self-censoring without anyone there, and he seems to be aware of the freedom he’s giving up, yet he continues to act this way. I’ve talked to my brother about privacy and why it’s important many times, but he would rather live this type of controlled life and doesn’t care because “they already know everything about me anyway.” He’s in his early 20s.
Has anyone else had moments like this?
My eighty year-old parents have borrowed my car since April so they can drive for DoorDash, knowing full well if they can’t work this country will do nothing to help them and they’ll end up homeless.
Yay capitalism.
The goal is not to avoid the watch lists. The goal is to be on so many that they become useless.
Now I have a new goal in life.
Assuming this is the US, I doubt it’s that easy to land on any sort of watchlist. Unfortunately, paranoia doesn’t require any actual hard evidence.
At one time searching for linux was enough. https://www.eweek.com/security/linux-lands-on-nsa-watch-list/
When packaging on food specifies that it has REAL ingredients , like REAL CHEESE and REAL HONEY.
We’ve gotten so good at producing fake, artificial flavors that we need to specify when our food is real.
Also new facial scanners at airports
I think REAL CHEESE was a trademark so they could use it, it’s FAR from real cheese, but a loophole to put that phrase on the package.
They weren’t joking with “collect it all”.
https://theintercept.com/2015/05/28/nsa-officials-privately-criticize-collect-it-all-surveillance/
Reminds me of this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-05-27
Privacy is the not-dumb way regardless of who’s in charge. Non-negotiable when you have dipshits and terrorists and nazis at the helm.
Your brother is dumb about privacy. Hopefully he figures it out.
