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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 08:32:16 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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If you listen to the new #Economist podcast #NextYearInMoscow, you will see that people will not see it coming for them until it's too late. Some will protest and quickly be dealt w/. Problem solved.
In particular w/ the integration of #AI into the #RUS #censorship machine (Episode 4, I think). Their only limitations seemingly are: manpower and global reach
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  LisPi (lispi314@mastodon.top)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 08:32:18 JST LisPi
  @lauren @SocialistStan@kolektiva.social @Shachihoko @HistoPol @eff @team Are people really stupid enough to still buy that line?
  They're stereotypes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse) for a reason.
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    Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse
    
    The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse refers to those who use the Internet to facilitate crime or (pejoratively) to rhetorical approaches evoking such criminals. The phrase is a play on Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. There is not a universally agreed definition of who the Horsemen are. Terrorists, pedophiles/child molesters, organized crime like drug dealers, intellectual property pirates, and money launderers are cited commonly. One of the most famous definitions is in The Cyphernomicon by the cypherpunk writer and engineer Tim May, which states: 8.3.4. "How will privacy and anonymity be attacked?" [...] like so many other "computer hacker" items, as a tool for the "Four Horsemen": drug-dealers, money-launderers, terrorists, and pedophiles.17.5.7. "What limits on the Net are being proposed?" [...] Newspapers are complaining about the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse: terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and money launderers Digital rights activist Cory Doctorow frequently cites "software pirates, organized crime, child pornographers, and terrorists...
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