Post by Stealth on Jan 26, 2023 13:30:54 GMT 10
I'm in the same camp. 'They' can follow me or track every second of every day of my life all they like. I'm boring as hell 🤣. Not to mention the vast majority of people seem to think that there's rooms full of spooks staring at screens reading every single word anyone types and evaluating them for their threat level. Sure. There's probably some people who're being tracked like that. Because a computer system somewhere that reads a list of naughty words and enough pings hit from a thread or comment to flag as 'this person could be concerning'.
But the concept that every single thing we say or do is being tracked by some beefed up stasi type force? Who the hell HAS that kind of money? You'd have to pay each single one of them a living wage to do that. Then all the kit that you need. Then the overtime. Hooo boy, the overtime. Nope. I'm not worried I'll ever string enough scary keywords together to become an individual of interest or whatever fancy phrasing they use to claim me as frisky and risky.
Even here, where we've had the forum owner confirm that we have regular surveillance. My guess is that once a week, someone pulls up an excel spreadsheet that has all the times "government" (or whatever hopeless effort at sneak speak someone has used) or "kill" or "nazi" or whatever has come up. They probably run a macro that spits out a graph that says which users used those terms most often. Then they compare it against the information they have for that individual. "This person uses a lot of ranty talk but doesn't actually do anything" will likely be the result. And they move along to the next forum for their cursory check on the local yokels. Or wokels. And the only reason I know this is because that's EXACTLY what most social media platforms do.
My point is the large amount of surveillance would be done by a computer. Not a person. You only have to look at how often Facebook or Twitter uses AI to recognise shifty language and delete a person's account. No one is paying anyone to sit there and read every single post that gets posted on a boring little, relatively unproblematic forum. They would only get someone to sit down and review it if the system started producing red flags.
(And also I'd like to say "Hi, sorry for ruining your day by giving you work to do" when the system flags this post for several likely red-flaggy words that I used to prove my point 🤣🤣🤣).
But the concept that every single thing we say or do is being tracked by some beefed up stasi type force? Who the hell HAS that kind of money? You'd have to pay each single one of them a living wage to do that. Then all the kit that you need. Then the overtime. Hooo boy, the overtime. Nope. I'm not worried I'll ever string enough scary keywords together to become an individual of interest or whatever fancy phrasing they use to claim me as frisky and risky.
Even here, where we've had the forum owner confirm that we have regular surveillance. My guess is that once a week, someone pulls up an excel spreadsheet that has all the times "government" (or whatever hopeless effort at sneak speak someone has used) or "kill" or "nazi" or whatever has come up. They probably run a macro that spits out a graph that says which users used those terms most often. Then they compare it against the information they have for that individual. "This person uses a lot of ranty talk but doesn't actually do anything" will likely be the result. And they move along to the next forum for their cursory check on the local yokels. Or wokels. And the only reason I know this is because that's EXACTLY what most social media platforms do.
My point is the large amount of surveillance would be done by a computer. Not a person. You only have to look at how often Facebook or Twitter uses AI to recognise shifty language and delete a person's account. No one is paying anyone to sit there and read every single post that gets posted on a boring little, relatively unproblematic forum. They would only get someone to sit down and review it if the system started producing red flags.
(And also I'd like to say "Hi, sorry for ruining your day by giving you work to do" when the system flags this post for several likely red-flaggy words that I used to prove my point 🤣🤣🤣).
