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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

...which do you think is more likely? That the programmers did their "due diligence" and set up the programme to flag record and report illicit asks? Cus I think its more likely that the code just generates an empty threat when you feed it certain prompts.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i mean even if it's a real threat the feds seem highly selective over who they actually pursue over stuff like google searches and tweets

but they do show up at doors or send a swat guy to burst through a window sometimes. I don't know how they select for that because there must be thousands or millions of threats posted online every single day.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know how they select for that

You would think there'd be some kind of advanced points system where potential threats are logged and the most severe offenders are the ones they go and check out

But honestly from what I've seen of the US government being simultaneously more evil and less competent than you would ever believe, they probably go either completely at random or pick out "scary sounding" names manually

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

there's probably some of that because they don't knock on the door of everyone who buys a pressure cooker from amazon but there's probably a lot more us-foreign-policy

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Even if it is an empty threat and the feds wouldn't waste their time acting on it, the feds are probably getting the data anyway — we've publicly known about PRISM for more than a decade now