Let’s say Dear Leader decides to have the houses of anyone who speaks ill of him (or capitalism) burned down in the night, or their dogs killed, or nefarious files uploaded to their network etc. How easy would that be?
US, of course. I’m actually concerned about this.
Do I think that some desk nerd is planting himself in /c/trumpisafucktard trying to catfish the members into a meetup so they can kidnap him, waterboard him and then deport him to Lithuania? Of course not. Do I think that they have at some point had human eyeballs on something written on the fediverse that got flagged by AI? You can bet your trump-hating ass they have.
I imagine the feds(of all the letter varieties) have had the capability to scrape the entirety of the open internet and look for certain phrases or particular user data that meets their search criteria. If you think about it, Google has been doing it for years.
Why don’t we waste their time I want to kill the president
In minecraft. I would also laugh if someone else did it