Comments on: Little Brother Shows Us The Truth http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/01/27/little-brother-shows-us-the-truth/ Reality-based political commentary Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:34:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/01/27/little-brother-shows-us-the-truth/#comment-221788 Kick Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:47:08 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27236#comment-221788 <b>^^^^^ EDIT ^^^^^ </b> "highlighted in bold <b>above</b>" should be: "highlighted in bold <b>below</b>." Except now, it is definitely actually above this edit and... oh, I need some caffeine. And pie. Pie fixes everything. :) ^^^^^ EDIT ^^^^^

"highlighted in bold above" should be: "highlighted in bold below."

Except now, it is definitely actually above this edit and... oh, I need some caffeine.

And pie. Pie fixes everything. :)

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/01/27/little-brother-shows-us-the-truth/#comment-221787 Kick Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:42:18 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27236#comment-221787 Since we are discussing how "the new scenario has actually shifted power not to a Big Brother government but against government overreach," I'ma just drop a reminder (as I pointed out during the 2025 awards season) that one of the least reported things going on regarding said issue is copied and highlighted in bold above for your convenience (and mine). <blockquote> <b>Most Underreported Story</b>: ICE hiring private contractors to monitor social media and gather personal information of critics, including their friends, online history, SSN, etc., and <b>government's use of software that can monitor data on a phone by simply sending a text to it (wherein the owner does not even have to respond to the text), obviously in clear violation of privacy rights in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution that protects against unreasonable searches and seizures of your "persons, houses, papers, and effects," which searches require warrants based on probable cause. </b> ~ Kick </blockquote> <b>So, to recap</b>: Big Brother has cyber weapons referred to as "zero-click spyware." You cannot say you were not warned. :) Since we are discussing how "the new scenario has actually shifted power not to a Big Brother government but against government overreach," I'ma just drop a reminder (as I pointed out during the 2025 awards season) that one of the least reported things going on regarding said issue is copied and highlighted in bold above for your convenience (and mine).

Most Underreported Story: ICE hiring private contractors to monitor social media and gather personal information of critics, including their friends, online history, SSN, etc., and government's use of software that can monitor data on a phone by simply sending a text to it (wherein the owner does not even have to respond to the text), obviously in clear violation of privacy rights in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution that protects against unreasonable searches and seizures of your "persons, houses, papers, and effects," which searches require warrants based on probable cause.

~ Kick

So, to recap: Big Brother has cyber weapons referred to as "zero-click spyware." You cannot say you were not warned. :)

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/01/27/little-brother-shows-us-the-truth/#comment-221785 nypoet22 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:49:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27236#comment-221785 @caddy, most people these days know all about deepfakes, and are therefore more skeptical of what they see, no matter how real it looks. as the quality improves, so will people's skepticism of videos that lack many vectors of human confirmation. of course, this skepticism could also be exploited, to make people doubt reality even when it IS real. JL @caddy,

most people these days know all about deepfakes, and are therefore more skeptical of what they see, no matter how real it looks. as the quality improves, so will people's skepticism of videos that lack many vectors of human confirmation. of course, this skepticism could also be exploited, to make people doubt reality even when it IS real.

JL

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/01/27/little-brother-shows-us-the-truth/#comment-221777 MtnCaddy Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:19:40 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27236#comment-221777 It’s a helluva thing that we live in a time when millions of Americans know as much as we do about fascism, authoritarianism and propaganda. It’s a helluva thing that we live in a time when millions of Americans know as much as we do about fascism, authoritarianism and propaganda.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/01/27/little-brother-shows-us-the-truth/#comment-221776 MtnCaddy Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:17:23 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27236#comment-221776 I wonder what effects the attainment of entirely convincing AI “deep fake” videos will have on the phenomenon that you illuminate here? We’re really close to pulling this off — certainly by 2028. If Propaganda even just muddies reality sufficiently people give up trying to figure out the truth and thence acting on it. I wonder what effects the attainment of entirely convincing AI “deep fake” videos will have on the phenomenon that you illuminate here? We’re really close to pulling this off — certainly by 2028.

If Propaganda even just muddies reality sufficiently people give up trying to figure out the truth and thence acting on it.

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