BREAKING: ICE to Monitor Americans' Social Media

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100. Well the US is newer to this

An American acquaintance residing in China (his wife is Chinese) told me that surveillance state or not, it’s hard for the state even in China to keep up with the sheer volume of this crap.

I used to feel pretty self conscious about my own webuse prior to the last 14 years-never even had any social media. I did have a Facebook account for a few years, but that was strictly due to peer pressure. That was back when it was still .edu restricted. Never liked it.

I have a Substack account just to support this one journalist Yasha Levine, but I dislike Substack overall. Du is the only site I use without any ick.

I got an early warning about the emerging hyper-surveilled world in the works and oddly became more disinhibited and “crazier” in my posts initially.

Now, it’s oddly in the Trump era of all things that my brain’s default is slowly decaying back to my earlier headspace (which would probably be reflected in my posts over time).

I was always pretty self-conscious ..hate cameras. So I felt extra crazy when I first got wind of surveillance creep and was alarmed and unsettled by it.

Now that’s it’s officially this creepy, oddly I feel less singled out and am adapting better though still without caving on privacy or my rights etc..but now everyone is in the hell I was in ;-/..

Regardless, I think it’s hard to keep up witb the sheer volume of this crap and that sort of means you hide in plain sight..which is the best you can expect unfortunately.

I do what I can to protect my privacy (though one feels jaded at times). That’s part of what to fight.

My writing has really deteriorated though. . That is something I have to fix. It has been like that man’s “duckspeak” from 1984.
I have to start writing more slowly and carefully so I can stand to read what I write,