FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors”

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FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1111823

A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.

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It being a racist country doesn’t mean each person is racist. The country took part in decades of genocide, slavery, segregation, coups in countless countries, placed countless dictators in power, and inspired the Nazis (yes literally).

It’s had its issues, there’s no doubt about that. But it set the precedent for a new kind of society in 1760. It’s an amazing country.

Also, it didn’t inspire the Nazis, that is a ridiculous comment.

What new kind of society? Democracy and representative government are older than the US.

Nazis were literally inspired the US to use Zyklon B from when they used it on immigrants they still

continue to exploit https://www.npr.org/2006/01/28/5176177/the-bath-riots-indignity-along-the-mexican-border

Hitler literally praises the US in mein kampf and jim crow was an inspiration to the Nazi’s https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow

its had its issues It still has the issues lol the largest population in prison per capita, no healthcare, no public transportation, shrinking life expectancy, and they’re still occupying tons of countries, still sanctioning cuba for god knows what, still arming tons of dictators and terrorists around the world, etc etc

I no longer see systemic racism like there was at one time. Do you know if any government policies that are racist in nature? I don't.

There’s a name for that buddy. Ignorance.

No, it's liberal free speech. The big news outlets in America do not report their apartheid.

Only leftist media does and you're labeled a terrorist for watching it.

Show me one law that is racist? I bet you can't. At one time it was common. Ie. Where you could sit on a bus.

If anything we now have laws that are the opposite and support minorities.

The entire war on drugs is a racist endeavour that has created racist drug laws.

"You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

This post is about a government contract that is racist in nature. Is that close enough for you?

Drug prohibition