First they wanted to make lists of the autistics, trans people and those who might access abortion. Not to mention the lists that ICE undoubtedly have.
Now it's food stamp recipients.
Who and what will be next?
You know who made lists? Nazis. There's no reason for the government to require this level of personal data.
Or at least, there's no good reason. I think we all know what their reason is. This is fascism. They’re preparing lists to target and eliminate people deemed ‘undesirable’. We must fight back.
If you’re still being silent because you aren’t in a targeted group, please remember history.
Fascists won’t stop. They will land on your doorstep eventually.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5389952/usda-snap-doge-data-immigration
#uspoli #fascism #snap #transrights #ice #disability #autism #ableism
"You know who made lists? Nazis. There's no reason for the government to require this level of personal data. "
Thanks to mainstream social media, people are (or allowing the) sharing huge amounts of personal information without question, you can barely click on a web link these days without it also containing tracking information.
We are told a lot of this is so we are given a better, more personal experience, or it has simply become normalised and with AI we are told the same thing better experiences or it is being helpful, we are told we need it.
NB : Nazis told people being taken to the concentration camp they were being relocated to a better home, (if I understand history correctly).
So within this fight back we need to cast the net wider, we are, in effect being groomed with the help of big tech to see sharing information as normal as say taking our clothes off to have a shower.
Lets fight on many fronts.
The very people who campaign for e-safety seem equally clueless, For example the NSPCC are on facebook, twitter (X), youtube and linkedIn. Whereas many young people are on Snapchat, tiktok and instagram.
So who are the aiming at here?. They may be able to reach adults by being on those platforms,
Young people are warned about consequences of sharing lots of personal information, but adults are up against influencers etc, and they need to share to get that personal experience (or are told profie is not complete).
At the same time young people are asking for guidence on safety and for adults to deal with the issues around suicide, self harm videos and pornography in their feeds.
I contacted 5rights a whiile back after seeing their article on breakfast TV, I suggested we should try and promote fediverse to young people but not just from a user viewpoint, but from the view they can be directly involved in how the fediverse grows going forward, they can build their own instances.
They didn't get back to me.
Perhaps people are stuck in their social media bubble and from a psychological view point can't escape and see other ways of doing things.
@zleap this is an excellent point. I especially worry about younger generations who share absolutely everything online and aren’t taught basic social media safety or etiquette. All of that could be used against them, and I suspect they have absolutely no idea.