Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat. The Atlanta man, who asked not to be identified, says the post was merely a confirmation that he had purchased the same T-shirt that the accused killer wore (from an Illinois-based online shop).
Social media companies are generally forbidden by law from divulging users’ private communications to the government without a traditional legal process (e.g., court order). But there’s an exception: in perceived emergencies, social media platforms can proactively and “voluntarily” hand over private messages in response to what’s called an “emergency disclosure request” (EDR).
Discord, I am told, did not respond to any EDR here; but when I asked them directly if they’d provided law enforcement with information to traditional legal process, they declined to respond on-record.
The FBI, or the intelligence community, evidently is monitoring Discord private messaging, even from people who have broken no law.
Full blown Orwellian world. Run for local government and stop this shit.
The largest populated areas are left leaning. If they ae controlled by democratic socialist, we can restrict this shit. Just by pure numbers.
Snowden told us about these type of IC capabilities 12 years ago. We are cooked, y’all. Cooked.
We’re probably burnt at this point.
As a Turkish citizen, this gives me a sense of deja-vu. America is going through the same crackdowns on freedoms we experienced 25 years ago.
What happened as a result? Any tips?
I don’t think they’re doing to well so it’s not comforting
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frequent political violence while the leaders scapegoat the entire Kurdish population.
So does it impact their employment? I am trying to figure out how people eat through all this.
Kurds have been Erdoğan’a greatest friends over the years. When Erdoğan called for a referendum in 2010 to abolish the independent judiciary (the infamous “yetmez ama evet” referandum), support from Kurdish nationalists was critical for Erdoğan’s victory.
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You may as well assume that anything done on public social media is being read, searched and filtered in real-time by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Given the trajectory of this administration in persecuting people for their political affiliation, dumping commercial social media should be an imperative for everyone who isn’t goose stepping.
Discord is private social media, and most users think their messages aren’t shared with government without a warrant. Of course it’s possible in this case Discord didn’t even provide the messages to “police”, but that the police just subscribe to their commercial data-sharing and enjoy the same real-time access that way.
This was what should have been a private conversation though, not public.
It was said in a Discord chat. Discord chats are not private, you agree to that in the TOS when you sign up.
There are always people monitoring the chats, voice and video, looking for illegal activities. Something was said in that conversation that their algorithm flagged for human review and that person sent it to law enforcement.
You have zero privacy on any social media. Everything that you write is viewable by the service owner and they actively look for things to report to law enforcement.
Companies pay lip service to your privacy, but at the end of the day they’ll turn you in the instant it suits them. If you want privacy, you use encryption so that your privacy is guaranteed by mathematics.
Well, it’s being scanned for keywords by a script. They don’t manually read every post in existence. That’s not physically possible.
I’m fortunately not American.
Guns should be regulated anyway.
They’ve tried. First it was white men only. Then women could get them. Now almost anyone can own them. Even people with extra melanin in their skin!
for now. pretty soon, it’ll be back to white men only.
I really do worry tools like whatever the naperville pd using here are going result in a lot of damage and upturned lives once their use becomes more casual, like god knows what’s going to happen with the president declaring random political views terrorism
no real court orders were involved, the article mentions a EDR wasn’t invoked, no push back from discord over what sounds like some sort of dump or access to all images uploaded to the service
Spotshooter is one of those systems that collect but doesn’t work as advertised. Politicians love approving it. We also have these POS.
Asking for a friend, where would one buy one of these shirts?
I would tell the friend to read the article. Your friend will and probably is being monitored. I’m also sure lemmy is as well.
It’s the Clipper Chip all over again.
