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.
I will agree with people who suggested that Palantir is scraping anything and everything online that’s public looking for anything actionable. Every time I see some .ml user write an actionable threat on here, it puts all of us on the line. But they’re also probably scraping things like prepper forums and whatever. They’re using AI systems for this, not humans, so until you ping hot for something actionable, they’re just building a profile on you to tie accounts to you as a real person.
Why Palantir and not the NSA? Palantir don’t need no warrant. Even a FISA warrant takes a paper trail. That’s why contractors are contracted - to use third party doctrine to violate the 4th Amendment.
That being said, I strongly recommend:
Don’t fucking doxx yourself. If you live in the US, don’t say what state or city unless it’s an account tied to you IRL.
Don’t name, or even gender if you can avoid it, spouses, partners, or family members.
Always connect with a VPN.
Any account used through an app on a phone should be considered tied to you IRL.
Don’t say anything on the internet you don’t want a prosecutor reading back to you in a monotone voice.
Now I want a text2speech option for my lemmy app with the voice of a bored and mildly annoyed lawyer.
Call the voice “Can you please read back the Transcript?”