Posted on 03/11/2024 4:57:38 AM PDT by Sam77
The United States government has been pouring millions of tax dollars into developing AI-powered tools to censor and blacklist dissent voices.
This month, the House Judiciary’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Committee revealed that the U.S. government is funding AI censorship technology via the National Science Foundation (NSF) to censor political debate on social media platforms.
(Excerpt) Read more at disswire.com ...
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New Report Exposes Massive Government Surveillance of Americans’ Financial Data
March 6, 2024
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim staff report titled, “Financial Surveillance in the United States: How Federal Law Enforcement Commandeered Financial Institutions to Spy on Americans.”
The report reveals alarming evidence of federal law enforcement engaging in broad financial surveillance and prying into the private transactions of American consumers. This surveillance, not predicated on specific evidence of criminal conduct, targeted terms and transactions related to core political and religious expressions protected by the Constitution.
Federal law enforcement, including the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the FBI, facilitated multiple backchannel discussions with financial institutions to gather Americans’ private financial information.
These discussions involved some of the largest financial institutions in the United States, such as Barclays, U.S. Bank, Charles Schwab, HSBC, Bank of America, PayPal, and many others.
Tactics included keyword filtering of transactions, targeting terms like:
- "MAGA" and "TRUMP,"
- as well as purchases of books,
- religious texts,
- firearms-related items,
- and recreational stores,
- like Cabela’s,
- Bass Pro Shop, and
- Dick’s Sporting Goods.
This surveillance extended beyond criminal suspicion, likely encompassing millions of Americans with conservative viewpoints or Second Amendment interests.
H/T Freeper bitt
Web-based tool WiseDex combats the spread of misinformation online
On the funding, at least in part...
From 2024...
House weaponization panel subpoenas National Science Foundation over misinformation research
Schwab incorrectly turned me into to the IRS for “not reporting gain” on sale for something I had full basis in. Tried to charge me $300K in taxes. Accountant said it was because I am a director of a public company that is not the kind of company Chuckie Schwab likes and it is their policy to screw with oil executives.
Audit cost me $3500. IRS paid me $98 in the end for their bad faith investigation.
with the tech advances in today’s world...who DIDN’T see this coming? “power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely” applies.
THE DIFFICULT RESPONSIBILITY OF CENSORSHIP
Communism.
This is war and we have the right to respond accordingly.
Good tax accountants aren’t cheap. And they hate dealing with the IRS on poo like that, too.
This is how all fascist governments begin. The Third Reich, CCCP, Red China.
I’m pretty sure this government can kiss my dissent.
All of tech is being used against good people. So, why not AI also?
The Left doesn’t like free speech (and, hence, the Constitution).
Interesting & apt summary.
Thanks!
The banks on that list…
Barclays, U.S. Bank, Charles Schwab, HSBC, BoA, Paypal, KeyBank, Standard Chartered, Western Union, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Santander, JPMorgan Chase, and MUFG.
Certainly all the big ones. Are there any banks out there that are refusing to spy on Americans?
I wonder.
bkmk
“the House Judiciary’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Committee revealed that the U.S. government is funding AI censorship technology via the National Science Foundation (NSF)...”
No, the US Congress is funding it through the National Science Foundation, since the US Congress authorizes all funding, not “the US government”. Unless Congress defunds this stuff, they are not serious at all about stopping it.
What follows is a bill that
finances the building of many more prisons.
Past: prologue. Kneel,bitches.
Sorrowing, I am.
Tyranny!
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