Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by refurb on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:49AM (#23788251)

How does that jive with the overwhelming propensity for big government on HN?

“I don’t want the gov’t to know I was at a protest, but I’m more than happy to give them all my medical data and work for a nationalized company.”

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by shpongled on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:14AM (#23791125)

I think you're barking up the wrong tree here. A cursory glance over my comments would show that I don't have a desire for big government. I think we should immediately abolish the IRS, ATF, DEA, and NSA

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by refurb on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:05PM (#23799112)

My comment was not directed at you, but more broadly what I read on HN. There is a very strong anti-gov't stance when it comes to privacy and surveillance, but a very strong pro-government stance when it comes to solving issues like healthcare, capitalism, R&D, housing, food, etc.

I don't see how those two can jive.

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by areeh on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:41AM (#23819658)

I'm curious what you see as the fundamental conflict here? Looking at my own European country, these are things we work on optimising at the same time, and I think we often do better at both than the US.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by anti gov't though, I just mean having laws and mechanisms that protect privacy

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