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.
Using this to try to get more people off of discord.
Also not privacy related, but fuck substack
Ken Klippenstein has done amazing work and broke multiple stories.
This is not a smear against discord but a reveal of how the government is operating. If you don’t think it is a privacy issue then you don’t know what privacy is. Being a fan boy doesn’t change what is happening.
Use discord all you want but your point is baseless about the story.
Apologies, I wasn’t criticizing the article, or you for sharing it. It’s a tricky sentence, especially if English isn’t your first language - the “but” changes the subject. Article is definitely privacy related.
What isn’t privacy related is my opinion about subtack. I don’t mean to derail, so will let anyone reading this look up why ss sucks and make their own decision.
Gotcha. SS has a troubling history. One could argue journalist have a open door policy.
How do you say one is a journalist while another isn’t? Today, anyone can be a journalist and a lot of traditional journalist are doing their own thing.
Even credible outlets are changing. The New Your Times was considered top tier but now… lord have mercy. Billionaires are buying up and interfering with the companies. And then we have private equity firms, the lice found on the flies that eat shit.
Yes, I wonder what journalists (“professional” and otherwise) are supposed to do. Everyone going their own way and splintering off into many little voices doesn’t feel like the right answer, but publishers are beholden to investors and can be bought out by billionaires. I suppose there are publishers/agencies that have maintained their integrity like 404 Media, or Al Jazeera.
Maybe this is just the burden of anyone in a democracy: to constantly weigh the quality of the sources of information you’re using to form opinions which spawn action.
Critical thinking is a invaluable tool that ia slowly being lost to drone mentality. That is how democracy dies.
In other news, Trump has saved TikTok so the drone factory won’t shut down after all.
He never wanted to shut it down, instead he wants to control it. It is a massive surveillance tool. China knows that as well.
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.
Exactly what Charlie Kirk would want! More censorship!
Sad fact that we live in a world that his death accomplished more then his life. We all knew he was a Trump asset but I never thought it would be like this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Socialist Democrates whant’s to destroy e2ee in sweden to both parties is anti encryption and pro mass surveillance. They are fighting against eachother of “who can introduce most surveillance and police state laws first”
Liberals always try to prepare everything the Fascists need to do Fascism when the Fascists get elected (with help from the liberals)
That’s what happens when the billionaires donate to all the political parties.
Tjis is really the only thing anyone should pay attention to. Assassinating Peter Theil is a good first step to stopping this surveillance state. He wants to destroy humans to make way for transhumans. The war has begun.
So be different when you run for office. Strengthen privacy laws instead of destroying them.
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.
