Given the expansion of the fed/state/local/corporate surveillance net, do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago? Comments UR…

And for things that might seriously attract the ire of people who consider political violence a positive good, there's always TOR. I do wonder if I could automate the expression of uncontroversial opinions in the public sphere though. For example things about movies, music, or sporting events. These are valid interests that I simply don't have. I have at times been regarded with (I think) unfair suspicion for not engaging with social media to a meaningful degree. Before they had an easy access to the data but the barrier was their capacity to go through it. Nowadays any middle manager with data access and an OpenAI subscription can potentially get a sentiment and summary of your public (or even private with some saas plans) conversations. OR. You want to say something about US oil and gas companies, or Israel. Those two things will get you scrutinised. From the government, a little, but I think as a non-American in the US I was always a bit careful on that front. Better not to get in any trouble you know. I'd rather the Chinese have my data over a US company because... what could they do? I live here, not China. Even if what they're doing isn't legal, that doesn't stop them from potentially ruining your life in the process, maybe even getting away with it. Imagine if every email provider had an option to "publicize" next to the ability to star an email or email thread.