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bagelstoday at 4:02 PM4 repliesview on HN

The US Government is the entity that weaponizes the data. The most obvious example is the Census Bureau compiling lists of people of Japanese descent to imprison during WWII. That's just the most obvious one that I know of without looking up more.

The real push for this now is to form lists of people to disenfranchise.


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dathinabtoday at 6:18 PM

yeah,

and implicitly force them to sell the land they own for less then it's worth, which in combination with setting up very messed up tax related laws in some states (1) which highly benefit you if you bought land longer in the past effectively "killed" a budding, wealthy, land owning Asian community and made sure it can't really regrow in that form.

(1): I think it was mainly California, but don't remember full

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newZWhoDistoday at 4:09 PM

Does anyone actually believe this crap?

You think the census is what the government would use to mass identify and imprison people, not the NSA database(s)?

You think homeland security, or the FBI, or any other alphabet agency doesn't already have access to a giant list of people?

Think about what meta knows about everyone, or Google. You do realize that the US gov has read access to their core databases right?

"The census" has absolutely no bearing on any of that which you're worried about.

It's just shocking the level of ignorance that gets upvoted in the comments here now.

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conceptiontoday at 4:04 PM

Remember “leftist “ and transgender activists are terrorists now.

First they came for…

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throwawa1today at 4:18 PM

Disenfranchise who? Something I find interesting is that Europe and the United States are experiencing the largest migration in human history yet no one talks about this. Taking a step back, looking at it from a systems perspective, the migrations are working as planned. Designed to subvert Democracy. What does it mean to have a vote when you import 10 new voters who disagree with you?

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