Enjoy!

[james_davis_nicoll]

Oh my God

Parler required users to give their social security numbers

And now they've been hacked

This is the biggest fucking grift I've ever seen, I knew these people were stupid, but my God they gave their SSN because Twitter mods were "meanies" to them

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) November 24, 2020

Comments

[conuly]

Isn't the far right super obsessed with privacy?

[brooksmoses]

...No?

My impression of typical far-right ideology is that the only reason its proponents care about privacy is insofar as it supports their actual value of not having anyone, and particularly not the government, interfere with their ability to do whatever they want.

There's also the atypical subgroup that fancies themselves to be an underground resistance organization and care about privacy for that reason, but they seem to be rather atypical and also seem to be the sort of people who use Bitcoin "because it's untraceable".

[keith_morrison]

Only as it pertains to government. It's similar to the way they are incandescently outraged at the idea a government bureaucrat could make a decision that might affect them, but replace "government bureaucrat" with "middle manager at Apex Super Colossal MegaCorp Inc", well, that's just free enterprise and the market at work.

[bibliofile]

This.

[beatrice_otter]

The far right regularly cheers on government surveillance such as the PATRIOT act and claims that anyone who doesn't like the NSA being able to get all your electronic data and metadata without a warrant is obviously a criminal or otherwise has something to hide.

[thewayne]

Ah, yes. The old "If you've got nothing to hide...." reasoning.

Sorry, blanket collection is useless. A study of the programs that Edward Snowden spilled the beans on showed that ONE prosecutable case came out of all that data swooped up, and IIRC it was a small money transfer case that had already been found and prosecuted long after it was sifted out of the NSA data.