I'm shamelessly taking credit for calling this early on, just waiting for Canadian Intelligence to be confirmed and screeching about incel extremists.
Federal law enforcement and intelligence have long focused on gaming as an avenue for both radicalization and as a backdoor platform for extremists to communicate. A 2019 internal intelligence assessment jointly produced by the FBI, DHS, the Joint Special Operations Command, and the National Counterterrorism Center and obtained by The Intercept warns that “violent extremists could exploit functionality of popular online gaming platforms and applications.” The assessment lists half a dozen U.S.-owned gaming platforms that it identifies as popular, including Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net, Fortnite, Playstation Xbox Live, Steam, and Roblox.
“We must stop the glorification of violence in our society,” former President Donald Trump said in 2019 after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. “This includes the gruesome video games that are now commonplace.”
I knew that statement by Trump would come back to haunt him.
The Anti-Defamation League has testified to Congress multiple times about extremists’ use of gaming platforms. In 2019, ADL’s then-senior vice president of international affairs, Sharon Nazarian, was asked by Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., if gaming platforms “are monitored” and if there’s “a way AI can be employed to identify those sorts of conversations.”
Oooo lookie, I was right about them using automated mass surveillance too since they can't afford to hire staff for the purpose. This means keyword based red flags on certain servers and lists being maintained on users. If you are a single guy playing video games and happen to have an opinion about the WEF, congratulations, you are now an extremist.
lulz obviously you get put on the super terrorist list. Joking aside though, the social credit system backdoor is going to be real. I suspect the ploy is going to go something like this.
. Game devs get government money in a new scheme partially to keep them afloat and track people they view as extremists, the new big thing that gets artificially astroturfed online by everyone to peer pressure gamers into playing it and doxxing themselves will kick off
. Probably going to cross check usernames with payment info to track people if they're flagged
. Data gathered will be automatically handed over to intelligence agencies and the ADL who will then use that data to maintain lists
. Cue gamers being mysteriously harassed by glowies later down the line over things they've been flagged for and being denied mortgages, employment and bank accounts depending on the severity of their actions
. Depending on the legal aspect of this they will likely implement some form of non-hate crime incident as they do in the UK but that depends on what they can do in the west generally and in the US, this is so they can maintain some kind of quasi-private list everyone on the back end has access to and check against gamers because little 12 year old Timmy yelling a racial slur after getting headshotted and teabagged in Call of Duty is going to be grounds for concern
This is how they will backdoor hate speech law, expect tracking on this scale to increase through social media as well. Even if it's not written into law in a country, you can bet your arse that employers will be complying. All of this will be done through the use of private companies and services so they won't even necessarily need to pass any laws to get it done.
Cue gamers being mysteriously harassed by glowies later down the line over things they've been flagged for and being denied mortgages, employment and bank accounts depending on the severity of their actions
Seems pretty mild, I'm seeing a grand vision of 15 minutes cities in which depending on your creds you might get relocated to another city in which you get grabbed on the train in between, with your public communication being replaced by generated text and video, should work to keep the normies in the dark for a while.
I do agree that's their end goal, I mean they've stated as much, however this is laying the groundwork. I think they've underestimated though how much resistance they're facing from the general population, their weird 2030 deadline is probably a real date for having all this shit implemented. I think they need to have a U.S president on board though for a lot of it to happen which is why they're so pissed about Trump.
If those groups were not in a state of human resource crisis, consumers would NEVER have gotten their hands on AI. The sole rationale of letting it roll (or egging it on), in terms of the legal usage of our data and the innovation that comes from its public accessibility, has been to overcome that one issue. There has been too much data for them to effectively surveil it all without it, for a long time.
Without that motive the plug could and would have been pulled on large scale development and it could have been done several distinct ways, but it didn't.
I'm shamelessly taking credit for calling this early on, just waiting for Canadian Intelligence to be confirmed and screeching about incel extremists.
I knew that statement by Trump would come back to haunt him.
Oooo lookie, I was right about them using automated mass surveillance too since they can't afford to hire staff for the purpose. This means keyword based red flags on certain servers and lists being maintained on users. If you are a single guy playing video games and happen to have an opinion about the WEF, congratulations, you are now an extremist.
But you were doing so much better of late. Oh well.
We can put it on his tombstone, I'm sure it will make all the difference in the end.
What happens if you already were a terrorist after the first GG, do I get to be a leader of the gamer terrorists?
lulz obviously you get put on the super terrorist list. Joking aside though, the social credit system backdoor is going to be real. I suspect the ploy is going to go something like this.
. Game devs get government money in a new scheme partially to keep them afloat and track people they view as extremists, the new big thing that gets artificially astroturfed online by everyone to peer pressure gamers into playing it and doxxing themselves will kick off
. Probably going to cross check usernames with payment info to track people if they're flagged
. Data gathered will be automatically handed over to intelligence agencies and the ADL who will then use that data to maintain lists
. Cue gamers being mysteriously harassed by glowies later down the line over things they've been flagged for and being denied mortgages, employment and bank accounts depending on the severity of their actions
. Depending on the legal aspect of this they will likely implement some form of non-hate crime incident as they do in the UK but that depends on what they can do in the west generally and in the US, this is so they can maintain some kind of quasi-private list everyone on the back end has access to and check against gamers because little 12 year old Timmy yelling a racial slur after getting headshotted and teabagged in Call of Duty is going to be grounds for concern
This is how they will backdoor hate speech law, expect tracking on this scale to increase through social media as well. Even if it's not written into law in a country, you can bet your arse that employers will be complying. All of this will be done through the use of private companies and services so they won't even necessarily need to pass any laws to get it done.
Seems pretty mild, I'm seeing a grand vision of 15 minutes cities in which depending on your creds you might get relocated to another city in which you get grabbed on the train in between, with your public communication being replaced by generated text and video, should work to keep the normies in the dark for a while.
I do agree that's their end goal, I mean they've stated as much, however this is laying the groundwork. I think they've underestimated though how much resistance they're facing from the general population, their weird 2030 deadline is probably a real date for having all this shit implemented. I think they need to have a U.S president on board though for a lot of it to happen which is why they're so pissed about Trump.
when everyone is an extremist, no one is
That's not how it works, the government is just going to view it as them needing bigger camps.
totally.
they will either build enough camps to imprison half the God damn country, or they will just arbitrarily arrest people to make examples of them.
when everyone is an extremist, everyone can be arrested and disappeared for any reason at any time.
No wait.
If those groups were not in a state of human resource crisis, consumers would NEVER have gotten their hands on AI. The sole rationale of letting it roll (or egging it on), in terms of the legal usage of our data and the innovation that comes from its public accessibility, has been to overcome that one issue. There has been too much data for them to effectively surveil it all without it, for a long time.
Without that motive the plug could and would have been pulled on large scale development and it could have been done several distinct ways, but it didn't.