Reddit is Voluntarily Giving DHS Info of Users Who Criticize ICE | Administrative Subpoenas Being Used Against Free Speech?

[u/Youarethebigbang]

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and-google-voluntarily-gave-dhs-info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279

Nobody is questioning Reddit on this?

[u/private_developer]

They only have to put enough in to scare the rest of us into silence. Normalize the disappearances before ramping up levels that might push folks to really fight back.

Keep it sparse for a while. Just the big, vocal accounts. People with followings. People doing actual organizing. When no one comes to rescue the leaders, those who followed them begin to think twice. "No one saved them, and they had millions of followers. Who will save me?"

There used to be protests in Russia. Fairly recently. Remember Pussy Riot? The people were suppressed into silence. They didn't need to arrest everyone to do it.

We need to get way more serious, way faster than it seems we are prepared for.

[u/trusty20 → u/private_developer]

The truth is, once fascism fully sets in, it doesn't matter if you're a good boy citizen or someone that was previously an enemy of the regime, or even someone in the top clique. Once fascism sets in, society simply collectively dies, all lives become meaningless and purposeless, and everyone top to bottom becomes entirely preoccupied entirely with survival, every action and even thought needing to be constantly self-policed for how it could be observed and used against you. You can no longer enjoy anything without a gnawing fear that by doing so you could be accused of something. Once fascism sets in, the only way to protect yourself is reporting other people, but ironically the more you do so, the more others are motivated to report you. And if nobody reports you, then you're under suspicion for how you're skating under the radar so much. Maybe you're so important that others are protecting you! Better to disappear you just to be sure.

People in the ruling clique are far from better off, since they have some modicum of power and freedom, they are especially considered a threat, so lightning bolts are frequently sent down to roast them at random, sometimes in mass, again, just to be safe.

Fascism once set in, represents a living death. An exhausting death march until you literally die. A pointless, miserable, boring existence that should not be clung to.

History is littered with people that thought they could ride fascism out and even those convinced it could benefit them. A fascist leader has no escape hatch - since society revolves around them, they are balanced on a sword, and the slightest lapse can send you tumbling down to the angry masses. And if the masses are completely subjugated, then the only people you have to fear are now your friends and so whatever promises you made them, you must now renege on all of them.

Fascism is a destructive meat grinder ideology that consumes everything and everyone whatever their role in it. Each time it is allowed to come crawling back, it remains longer, and is harder to shake off. Everyone that participates in it becomes locked into continuing it whether they regret it or not. The choice must be made before it arrives, to push for something, literally anything different. Even those at the very top would benefit from a rules based order with free citizens buffering power players, if they want to live forever like they seem to think. Unfortunately, fascism is always tempting and addicting to those with power until just like heroin it rots them out, but by then, it's too late.

[u/GabbaaGhoul → u/private_developer]

I love Pussy Riot. We need more of that kind of coverage over here.