US Government To Conduct Surveillance On Gamers

[temps]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j__ocnDLAj0

Apparently the government is worried those Call of Duty lobbies are hotbeds of radical sentiment... perhaps a threat to security.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-09gNDsPzQ

[Hammer Of Evil]

they're only a threat to the local pizza establishment.

[Ghost Robertson]

Awesome, They can watch me kick bum in unreal tournament.

[TwisterCat]

Hey, I'm not the one who was trying to discover the spirit realm, nor have I ever trafficked elicit substances.

On another note ~ gee, I wonder who the game companies who cooperated were.

[Magma Dragoon]

I'm pretty sure they've been monitoring gamer spaces since gamergate. It's going to be fun to see Asmongold get radicalized by these efforts and bring like 10 million people who currently have only vague political sentiments with him.

[Hammer Of Evil]

Diposting pertama kali oleh TwisterCat:

Hey, I'm not the one who was trying to discover the spirit realm, nor have I ever trafficked elicit substances.

On another note ~ gee, I wonder who the game companies who cooperated were.

time to start a steam group! FBI - Detected!

[Electric Cupcake]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Nargo:

They were aware of this issue for ages.
It's less about gamers being terrorists, and more like terrorists deliberately using online video games as mode of communication.
There's tons of games with chat and voice comms features, and historically, nobody cared about what went on between gamers DM's.

I still disagree with them trying to spy on it though.

Remember when people thought they could say incriminating ♥♥♥♥ and protect themselves by adding "in Minecraft" at the end? That was depressing.

[ナルゴ]

They were aware of this issue for ages.
It's less about gamers being terrorists, and more like terrorists deliberately using online video games as mode of communication. They know phone calls and text are unsafe, so are social media platforms, and chat apps.
But there's tons of games with chat and voice comms features, and historically, nobody cared about what went on in those.

I still disagree with them trying to spy on it though.

[BigBallinChester]

a while ago on VR Chat I know some Russian hackers ended up hacking one of the main game servers and then started having meetings there, it was really weird.

[Utiviroo]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Magma Dragoon:

I'm pretty sure they've been monitoring gamer spaces since gamergate. It's going to be fun to see Asmongold get radicalized by these efforts and bring like 10 million people who currently have only vague political sentiments with him.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/pentagon-♥♥♥♥-suspect-jack-teixeira-agrees-accept-16/story?id=107772933

If you want to blame one person, then blame that guy.

They were not monitoring gamers prior to that.

Diposting pertama kali oleh TwisterCat:

On another note ~ gee, I wonder who the game companies who cooperated were.

You can assume, all of them, sooner or later. If it is a US company, they basically can't say no, the lawyer bill would be a battle of attrition that most companies can not afford. Apple is the only one that comes to mind, regarding their crypto stand off, everyone else buckled.

They probably broke Anonymous and the other related hacker groups if they are really going after a much more diverse group that probably represents four billion people world wide, give or take a couple. It means they will be monitoring 250 million US citizens maybe more.

Probably be going on a massive recruiting spree if they can't teach the AI to do the donkey work for them.

[Squingus]

the fun police are now an actual thing omg

[temps]

They say the companies just often freely hand over gamers user data to the government when asked, like not even bothering to refuse until the government gets a search warrant / court order.

That way, I guess the government can circumvent that 4th Amendment they hate so much.

[Chalupacabaras]

The ADL recently started pushing for government surveillance of gamers, and treating online platforms like Steam with similar levels of overregulation as social media.

Source: Clownfish TV (Mar 17 2024) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DErbD2mCd4s

Source: Ken Klippenstein (Mar 9 2024), The Intercept -- https://theintercept.com/2024/03/09/fbi-dhs-gamers-extremism-violence/

Just one problem, though. Americans aren't the only people who have Steam user accounts, and the Europeans don't take kindly to such blatant invasions of privacy by foreign third-party bad actor groups like the ADL.

Gonna be a fun day when the National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Jonathan Greenblatt, has to testify before the European Commission about why he decided to violate GDPR for the Israeli government's benefit.

Source: ADL's own website -- https://www.adl.org/about/who-we-are/board-of-directors

Or did they think we wouldn't know they were straight white males who support terrorism and extremist groups?

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

I wonder how they are going to determine who are trolls or real terrorists

[Plaid]

Israel is not a legitimate state.

(just in case they are watching this)