the surveillance state
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The CyberFascism Bulletin: Summer Solstice Edition
Whether Industry absorbs the State, or the State absorbs Industry, the result is the same: fascism.And our Cybernetic Revolution makes this easier than ever. Big AI Bruce Schneier opines on How AI will change democracy: “Millions of AI-controlled social media accounts could fundamentally change the nature of propaganda.” (tip from The Geek Press) Sometimes big Read more
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Cyberfascism Bulletin, To and Fro Edition
Whether the State seizes Industry, or Industry seizes the State, the result is the same: fascism. –The Random Texan Big Gov Big Tech Big Ed The Counter-Revolution Read more
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Cyberfascism Bulletin, Dies y Seis Edition
Whether the State seizes Industry, or Industry seizes the State, the result is the same: fascism. –The Random Texan Big Media Our Chinese Big Brother The Counter-Revolution Read more
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Cyberfacsism, Canadian-Style
Big Mountie is watching you, eh? Documents obtained by Motherboard from Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS) through an access to information request show that at least two provinces—Ontario and Saskatchewan—maintain a “Risk-driven Tracking Database” that is used to amass highly sensitive information about people’s lives. … Information about people believed to Read more
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Big Brother is watching…
…with this collection of creepy gizmos. Know your opposition. Read it for the cameras, then follow the link to Tattoo Recognition Programs. Tip from the Geek Press. He links, you decide. Read more
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Sorry, you’ve reached your social credit limit
China has blocked millions of “discredited” travellers from buying plane or train tickets as part of the country’s controversial “social credit” system aimed at improving the behaviour of citizens. This is where ubiquitous surveillance by the state (directly or via contractors) eventually leads. This is why you shouldn’t trust the folks who want to dispossess Read more
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The War Against Big Brother
Today I begin a series of posts of observations and comments about what I call cyber fascism, the harnessing of ubiquitous information technology to impose political, commercial, and social control over much of the developed and developing world. My first real inkling of the enormity of our situation came as I prepared material for a Read more
The Random Texan 