“If they persist” = “as long as everyone keeps rolling over and allowing it”
Right-o, then: Protesty protest. Whoops, I got bagged by facial recognition and sent to El Salvador by gustapo. At least the media completely ignored the protest and no one even knows it happened.
A guy just got kicked out of Madison Square Garden. He was banned for life for a shirt he sold online that called for the removal of the MSG Ceo. He didn’t buy the tickets he was using, and hasn’t been to an MSG property in 20 years. They picked him out of the crowd using facial recognition, which was linked to his social media, which was matched to a list of banned people. This is just the actions of a private entity, how deep do you think the governments abilities reach?
Protesting these days is a lot bigger ask than it was even 20 years ago. Proper resistance even harder still. I agree we need action, drastic action, and soon. But I don’t fault ordinary people for being afraid to lose everything for what they believe.
having not heard about any of this, to everyone OOTL as me, have an article.
Two things stood out:
- he was not in Madison square garden, but some other property the company has control over.
- last year a judge dismissed a lawsuit that claimed such bans violate the law (privacy law in this case, PDF link from article)
Ho.Lee.Fuck
Have you seen the mass protests protesting the mass protestors getting imprisoned for protesting?
Sounds like it’s time to try something that isn’t as easily ignored.
This is the part where Americans shirk responsibility by telling me “you first” and then telling me “then keep your mouth shut” when they hear I’m not from the states- which is 1) hilarious coming from Americans and 2) helps them to go on pretending someone else will come to save them.
Well, that’s the plan.
As a European who studied in the US and since moved back to Europe after working in Silicon Valley for a while I am actually more and more ashamed about the US section of my CV.
I don’t even mention my time in the US in my cover letters anymore when applying for jobs.
well, Silicon Valley used to be good 5+ years ago. The enshittification cycle only started somewhere around 2018 imho.
Never thought stupid comedy relief movies about college life were going to be historical records of how US society used to be before becoming a hellhole that doesn’t value higher education.
“I love the poorly educated” -Trump, 2016
