There have been people recently that have had law enforcement show up to their homes for posting comments.

How do you know they are not. I mean, the moment they posted it here it's now part of the forever record in some data center.

The fact that it can always get worse means that it's tautological to say "it can get worse".

An important characteristic of autocracy and fascism is there is no bottom: the government is targeting activists but you can still talk about it online; professors in Texas must submit their syllabus to AI censorship software to screen for discussions of sexuality, but they aren't being sent to the gulag; ...; people are free to go about their lives as long as they are "apolitical"; ...; Suharto's death squads have killed half a million "communists" but at least it's not 5 million, and it's mostly in the villages...

Another important concept is the Dual State; there will always be some people who remain within the Normative State even as it shrinks and shrinks, and while the horrors of the Prerogative State become more and more extreme.

hey guys, we can talk about it with no discernible change even with that capability so we’re so unique and different

classic American cope

and this round, everyone without birth naturalization is being investigated for removal based on their speech, when it doesn’t match the state opinion