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‘Potentially a death sentence’: White House goes off on vaccine fear mongers

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Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages. The goal is to ensure that people who may have difficulty getting a vaccination because of issues like transportation see those barriers lessened or removed entirely.

“We are steadfastly committed to keeping politics out of the effort to get every American vaccinated so that we can save lives and help our economy further recover,” White House spokesperson Kevin Munoz said. “When we see deliberate efforts to spread misinformation, we view that as an impediment to the country's public health and will not shy away from calling that out.”

So, they are openly admitting to tracking your text messages and are talking about starting to put warning labels on them like they do on Facebook posts that they disagree with.

Next, they will figure out a way to listen and record the home telephone.

Do these fuckers realize that "1984" was a warning, and not a "how to" book?!?

When I want the USG (or anyone else) to quality-check my texts/email/posts/phone conversations, I'll invite them. Oddly, I've not offered invitations.

Absent an invitation, I'm not sure which provisions of the Constitution prohibit this. Would that be
- the First Amendment (freedom of speech) or
- the Fourth (unreasonable search - to get the text content in the first place) or
- the Tenth (nothing in the rest of the Constitution gives the Feds this power....so they don't get to add it randomly.)

Aw, hell, let's go for all three.

Oh, and tar and feather the morons who came up with that. I'll chip in for tar.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
Do these fuckers realize that "1984" was a warning, and not a "how to" book?!?

It’s not a warning to these people. It’s a road map.

we need our own vaccine against people that come up with these ideas

that is the ONLY way it will stop

Personally, I never regarded text messaging (SMS/MMS) to be at all secure in the first place. I never have, nor would I ever, send anything even remotely sensitive or personal via text message.

I will keep an eye on this. I expect that, if it is true the U.S. government plans to coerce carriers into Facebooking SMS/MMS, it will show up in my network security newsletter.

In the meantime I'm going to push friends and family a bit harder to move toward Signal Private Messenger.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
Do these fuckers realize that "1984" was a warning, and not a "how to" book?!?

It’s not a warning to these people. It’s a road map.

And in the end the state wins

I can see the NSA reading the SMS stream, but I don’t see how a text in the stream can be read/altered/replaced with any sort of rules based on content. It seems it would rely heavily on the carrier. Since SMS started as a way for carriers to make money without additional effort and then migrated to a basic free service, I’d think the carriers would resist something like this due to the impact o their bottom line. Of course the government could reimburse them with taxpayer dollars or they could Jack up the cost to the subscriber.

I know I am repeating myself.

The gov has been tracking everything since the 50s.

They just could not access anything useful without using a tremendous amount of resources looking for a certain call.

Now they have the computer power to do it all in real time.

Landlines, cell calls, text messages, we are living in a fish bowl without any privacy.

Top... men....

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Originally posted by sig2392:
I know I am repeating myself.

The gov has been tracking everything since the 50s.

They just could not access anything useful without using a tremendous amount of resources looking for a certain call.

Now they have the computer power to do it all in real time.

Landlines, cell calls, text messages, we are living in a fish bowl without any privacy.

What you're speaking of is a bit different than what's being attempted here. Yes, the government and big tech monitors everything we say and do online. Here they are proposing altering communications they disagree with. That's a very different thing and an escalation big time of what we've seen in the past.

Ugh.

I'm 2 months into my second dose and am having side effects still!

It's the Phizer. I get sudden fever flashes and chills.
Over and over and over.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Yes, the government and big tech monitors everything we say and do online. Here they are proposing altering communications they disagree with. That's a very different thing and an escalation big time of what we've seen in the past.

Agreed. The concept of the govt butting into private communications and inserting their own GROSSLY biased opinions is something we've never seen before. I almost hope they do it - it would maybe knock some sense into people and let them see where we are heading.

Of course, the leftists would love it, but it might wake the 'sleeping giant' of the silent/apathetic conservative majority and make them realize where this country is heading.

This reminds me of Star Trek Next Generation, specifically the episode "The Drumhead." In that episode, a zealous lawyer/judge/space karen is sent to investigate a possible conspiracy onboard the Enterprise, and doesn't stop until she finds one under every tree. After she attacks Picard for having been assimilated by the Borg, Picard droops his head in seeming defeat. Then, he calmly utters these words:

"You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."

Also, this one: “villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.”

We need to expose this nonsense.