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It's weird and extremely dishonest how they try to blame the platform instead of them hiring a knob (or I guess under-training them in the first place). I fear it will cause for more push for government spying on their people

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This is exactly what this is about. They are trying to make legal mass drag net surveillance and censorship. The key here is legal, they are already doing it covertly. There are plenty of murmurs this was done on purpose to set the excuse in place for restrict act, etc. Do you use a vpn? 20 years or a million dollar fine. Do you use tor? How about encrypted email? Signal? Crypto currency?

We look more like china everyday.

It was always part of the deal that "God's watching". You just had to believe it before, and now it's kind of literal.

I'm not trying to hide and I don't want to see everybody's lives.

When more people let go of hiding in humility, and do not want to see everything... we could manifest a new America, that didn't start in Plymouth.

The increase of the (now electronic) overseers, makes us more like the 1600s New England. China is playing catch up.

Most cryptocurrencies make dragnet surveillance super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Then they would have to consider what beliefs said knob held that are red flags and that is a much bigger problem.

? His motivations were pretty modest. This wasn't some ideological thing as far as we know.

The only thing that could resemble a red flag was one of the discord people described him as anti-war, while working for the military. A pretty normal position for a 20yr old though.

he was literally a neo-Nazi, OP

I must have missed that.

Citation? What I've seen is that he probably leaked the documents to impress his friends and was racist. Not every racist is a neonazi, though, so if you have other information I'd love to see it.

In common American parlance, "nazi" is becoming a slur for any racist/sexist/*ist/*phobe, and doesn't refer specifically to those with interest or sympathy for/with Nazi Germany.

That may be how some people use it, but that doesn't mean we should put up with that usage. The Nazis slaughtered millions of people because of their ethnicity/religion/sexual orientation/what have you. To use that word to describe an immature group of friends who say racist things because they think it's edgy waters down the meaning of a very powerful word in a way that severely harms public discourse.

If we're going to use the phrase "literally a neo-Nazi", I want to see swastikas or tattoos or something other than garden-variety hooliganism.

Plenty of usmil enlisted are anti-war. They’re the ones with skin in the game, after all.

20 years ago there were recruiters at my school bribing us to join because they'd pay 100% of our college tuition. Assuming they're still doing that, with costs going up I can imagine more people taking them up on it despite their viewpoints.

The story I've heard is that he leaked the documents to win an argument. He doesn't even appear to have seriously considered that they would travel far beyond his little Discord friend group. Of course, I could have misheard.

No, they should probably just not have access in the first place. Like having files encrypted with keys of only people that coudl access it or something

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