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.
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on the plus side, there’s one less dead nazi in the world.
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.
so an illinois policeman called a guy in atlanta around a convo about a thing that happened in utah??? That policeman should be investigated.
I’m fortunately not American.
Guns should be regulated anyway.
How else can we stop people like Kirk and Trump?
With words, you dopy twat. You can watch Kirk right now, getting his ass handed to him in debate on youtube. Stop acting like murder is the only option you have.
Word stopped hitler and stalin so well didnt they.
Some asshole debating students poorly is not fucking Hitler!
Hitler died from suicide and Stalin from a stroke.
Kind of difficult to make that happen.
Cmon McDonald’s do your thing
Americans are weird dude, even their leftists are gun happy and to the rest of us around the world it’s baffling. But they were born and steeped in this lunacy so they don’t see the problem
You must live in a democracy
Snowden told us about these type of IC capabilities 12 years ago. We are cooked, y’all. Cooked.
I think you missed his conclusion.
We have tools that they can’t penetrate. Privacy is a right. We’re not cooked.
We’re probably burnt at this point.
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)
So be different when you run for office. Strengthen privacy laws instead of destroying them.
It’s the Clipper Chip all over again.
not a single person gives a shit about charlie kirk; the whole crackdown is because politicians got a glimpse ofhow people will react when they die and they don’t like it.
They don’t give a shit about that either. Trump has been trying to goat people into violence and he final got his wish (possibly by his own people). They are seizing on that. That is why he moved the national guard into memphis TN. He wants marshall law to hold power forever.
Edit: spelling
It is worrisome that he is goating people to violence with Christy Noam running Homeland security.
Since we’re making corrections, the word is “goad,” not “goat.” You try to “goad” people into behavior or choices they wouldn’t normally make.
I try not to correct people much anymore if their message is still pretty obvious. I realized that offering too many corrections could cause people to post less, and I didn’t want to be the cause of that. But the fact that you were already willing to edit goaded me into suggesting another correction.
Really got your goad there didn’t it?
Thats just a moo opinion… lol
Also it’s martial, not marshal, which is reasonably important as martial means pertaining to war, i.e. the army running things.
Does this relate to Mars, God of war?
That is indeed the origin! https://www.etymonline.com/word/martial
I figured someone else would get that one. Other lemmings don’t seem to love it when I jokingly ask “who’s Marsha Law?”
This is a great point out. Just like Chomping/ Champing at the bit.
Your good. Just don’t be the " it is it’s vs its" person when you have nothing to add. I just want to fight those people.
*You’re
I hate you /s
Edit : /s
I know spite can add a lot of years to odious tyrants, but sooner or later…
They all end the same way.
A dead nazi is funny but at the end of the day they’re just another dead nazi. Now when Hitler or Goebbels eats shit, that’s a call for celebration.
Todays news outlets if sent back to 1945: Underrated painter shot in the head by maniacal racist in Berlin. German outrage over frantic celebrations across Europe.
Using this to try to get more people off of discord.
Also not privacy related, but fuck substack
What’s wrong with substack? Lots of great independent journalists use it.
Highly prone to lock-in, enshittification, and they promote Nazis.
Just another centralized platform that can’t help but want to become universal.
What’s the better alternative?
If self hosting ghost isn’t your style. Some good hosted options are bear blog, and write freely
There are several, but the most direct alternative is Ghost (see SS to Ghost migration guide here).
I used to subscribe to several SS newsletters that switched to Ghost, which is how I found out about it. But I wouldn’t have even noticed if they hadn’t told me.
Unfortunate choice of initialisation there.
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.
I saw this coming in 1999 when Scott McNealy inadvertantly spilled the beans on what his hateful industry was up to, and I have been extremely cautious about what I’ve been posting ever since. People have called me a paranoid crackpot for decades. I guess I hate to tell you I told you so…
De-google and open source has been my push this year. I’m not the most knowledgeable but I don’t trust these companies.
I stopped using social media for almost 20 years. Only anonymous chats like this are used. Everything goes through a VPN and I always think that someone else is reading my stuff.
9-11 put us on this track with no restrictions.
Same article from Internet Archive to get around the paywall
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
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.
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.
That’s been the case for 10 years. Unless it’s e2ee, it’s public record and can be tied to your real name with a minimal amount of paperwork.
Before I comment anything anywhere, I imagine it being read in a court room in a monotone voice. Bip bop dippity dop, the judge in this case is a swell person and I hope they have a lovely day!
Well they will have to read a lot of my erotic zelda/link fan fiction.
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Sounds like a CSAM case for a motivated partisan prosecutor.
People break the law, as it is written, way more than they think. Selective enforcement to target political rival groups is very much in the playbook here.
It is less safe to speak in public today than it was 2 years ago, and it is only getting worse. Protecting your privacy also means protecting yourself from mob justice when they decide you’re the new target group.
New flavor of the month. Let’s see what Trump seen on Fox News.
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.
Fortunately
user_nameis an alias…People are getting fired for celebrating his death. I would’ve called for it too, as nobody should have to die this way… even if they reject Israel. As a partial German-American Khazar who doesn’t practice Christian Zionism anymore, Kirk started to notice Judeofascism, and started calling it out before he was brutally murdered by a Mossad-appointed sniper (from 140 yards too).
I think my down button is broken. It only allows me to due it once instead of each word you typed out. Strange, must be the Mossad.
Have you read my other posts? I’ve proven that I’m not Mossad, because I’m not a Jesuit or Catholic penis sucker.