The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country, fully searchable by artificial intelligence. This powerful tool would empower the government to conduct previously unimagined levels of surveillance and harassment against its own people.

Freedom of the Press Foundation is suing the administration for documents behind the database. We know that this isn’t just something that the Trump administration would exploit; once built, it’s unlikely any administration could resist the urge to weaponize our personal information.

This nightmare privacy scenario began one year ago, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that expanded data sharing across the federal government. The administration touted the order, “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos,” as a way to target fraud within a supposedly bloated government.

The order was no such thing.

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      8 days ago

      Yeah seriously, where’s all those friggin “Molon Labe” kids now? “2nd protects the 1st”? “Tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty”? “No step on snek”? “Don’t agree with you but will fight to the death for your right to say it”? “What did you just say to me you little bitch I’m a navy seal with over 99 confirmed kills”? (Lol)

      Well here it is. The gubbmint wants to monitor your thoughts with the help of hidden microphones everywhere, hacking your phone, and probably space lasers. They want to biometric scan you and your kids just to allow access to electronic devices. They’re building databases and literally rounding people up they don’t like and putting them in concentration camps, even right here on home soil, no less! They’re murdering U.S citzens right here in our cities.

      I thought we’d at least be allies with these types, with some general disagreements on the finer points, but these big tough sheepdoggy guys that seemingly adored the Constitution and AR-15s that were seemingly EVERYWHERE, are suddenly all disappeared, or getting fantastic glutes from all that goose stepping.

      Bunch’a pathetic mall ninjas. It’s up to us to be training and looking after each other if we want any chance of brighter days ahead.

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        For real, we had to listen to these idiots for decades and now they seem completely silent when everything they’ve raged against for so long has finally manifested.