#SocialControl

2025-06-06

@augieray

“Palantir formed a partnership with the Israeli military in January 2024, and Google is part of a $1.2 billion cloud contract with the Israeli government.) Poulson tells WIRED that on Wednesday, the conference began mandatory bag-checks at at least one talk.”

#Palantir #Israel #DataHarvesting #Privacy #SocialControl #Spies #USPol

leslieleslie
2025-05-30

Anticipatory compliance: when you change your behavior to meet perceived expectations before anyone asks.

Self-censoring on social media. Conforming to workplace culture. Avoiding "controversial" topics.

No force required. The most effective control is getting people to control themselves.

🎧 Essential: bit.ly/4mIzRV6

leslieleslie
2025-05-29

"Be professional" often translates to: suppress your cultural identity, manage white comfort, conform to dominant norms.

These aren't neutral expectations—they're social control mechanisms that maintain power structures while appearing virtuous.

Women of color face disproportionate "likability" requirements that white men never encounter.

🎧 Essential listening: bit.ly/4ka6mK2

Einstein^Diogenes@UniverseLinkazuresaipan@defcon.social
2025-04-24
Illuminated0illuminated1
2025-04-18

The Truth About Secret Societies: Power, Control, and Hidden Knowledge
youtu.be/jJmZImisOeA

2025-04-13

Why Christianity Checks Every Box of a Death Cult | You Were Raised in This

youtu.be/NRZYlDFzGb8

> What if the real cult in America isn’t in the woods… but in your church?

#Christianity #DeathCult #SocialControl #Liberty #Liberation #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Project2025 #USPol

The Times of Central Asia timesca.com@bsky.brid.gy
2025-03-19
The Times of Central AsiaTheTimesofCentralAsia@federated.press
2025-03-19

Turkmenistan intensifies control over citizens with stricter travel restrictions and data collection on ex-officials and students to curb migration timesca.com/turkmenistan-monit #Turkmenistan #HumanRights #TravelRestrictions #Migration #CentralAsia #SocialControl #GovernmentSurveillance

MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:MusiqueNow@todon.eu
2025-03-12

youtube.com/watch?v=vmRb-0v5xf

#PBS #AmericanExperience #documentary

#TheEugenicsCrusade

Tracing the rise of an ugly project based on crackpot pseudo-science that turned into a movement and used as an instrument of #socialcontrol.

XU can’t decide if they want to live as a hermit independ and free or in society sheltered and in connection.
this story is from 2006 and the opener in KALEIDOSKOP (published by @reprodukt_berlin - order by DM with drawing, signature, dedication 29euro)
#kaleidoskop #hermit #graphicnovel #XU #reprodukt #socialcontrol #comic #moki #mioke #imagination #openness #friendship #demands #pressure #helpless #lonely #meditate
M. Ní Sídachmuiren@sfba.social
2025-02-07

Fascism Defined
An introductory retrospect on the nature of fascism from 7 years ago because it’s become relevant again.
#KatBlaque
#Culture #Politics #History #Nativism #SocialControl
youtube.com/watch?v=IhYWzlc0gA

Einstein^Diogenes@UniverseLinkazuresaipan@defcon.social
2024-11-10
BelovedSpearBelovedSpear
2024-11-08

A longstanding page promoting a satirical book I self-published got taken down by yesterday. The book is critical of Trump, and all of a sudden it "violates community standards." It's a reminder: on corporate social media, we have no First Amendment freedoms.

belovedspear.org/2024/11/on-li

Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2024-11-05

"It is true that Silicon Valley is home to a horde of reactionaries that pine for a modernity free of liberalism, as well as gripped by a delusion that society would be best served under their dominion. But why? If we are going to offer a theory such as techno-authoritarianism, we have to have some theory about why there is such a break. LaFrance offers us a tautology: these individuals accelerating the pace of our innovation and the triumph of digital technologies owe it to ideas that prioritize accelerating our innovation and the triumph of digital technologies.

The sad truth is this: Silicon Valley and its reactionaries are chickens coming home to roost. Silicon Valley is not some Promethean flame we smuggled from Olympos. Technology is not some primordial force corrupted by libertarian nerds with too much money. It's of the real world, it's material, it's influenced by the forces of history as much as anything else. Those forces come out of choosing to prioritize technology that helps us undertake surveillance for commerce, advertising, imperial adventure, speculation, and political suppression. The existential threat posed by today's tech capitalist overlords will get much worse. The funny ideas they have about their divine right to rule, their suspicion of competition and democracy, and other people who do not look like them—well, that's how we got here in the first place."

thetechbubble.substack.com/p/a

#AI #Capitalism #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #TechnoFeudalism #SocialControl #Automation #TechnoAuthoritarianism #Slavery

h o ʍ l e t thomlett@mamot.fr
2024-08-01

→ With the AI Act adopted, the #technosolutionist gold-rush can continue
laquadrature.net/en/2024/05/22

“[T]his text is tailor-made for the #tech industry, European #police forces as well as other large bureaucracies eager to automate #socialcontrol. Largely based on #selfregulation, crammed with loopholes, the #AIAct will prove largely incapable of standing in the way of the #social, #political and #environmental damage linked to the proliferation of #AI

DJSMOOTHIDJSMOOTHI
2024-07-11
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