Brickbat: Social Media Monitors

The United Kingdom is establishing an elite National Internet Intelligence Investigations team to monitor social media for posts against migrants and early signs of civil unrest, operating from the National Police Coordination Centre in Westminster with officers from across England and Wales. Critics claim the initiative infringes on free speech and prioritizes surveillance over policing. "Labour have stopped pretending to fix Britain and started trying to mute it," said Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp.

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[Vernon Depner]

They'd BETTER be worried about civil unrest.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...to monitor social media for posts against migrants and early signs of civil unrest...

They're likely monitoring the wrong accounts.

[Vernon Depner]

Depends on whose side you're on which accounts are the wrong ones.

[Chumby]

As an American in the US, use a VPN to set your location to England and begin posting away.

[SQRLSY]

Be sure to post with a bloody British accent!

[Kemuel]

In America we keep our mass surveillance clothed in secrecy. The UK, on the other hand, seems pretty proud of its surveillance package. If you've got it, flaunt it.

[Chumby]

Sqrlsy wants to get his hands on any package so he can caress it and give kisses.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

PrIvAtE cOmPaNiEs!

[Cyto]

I came back just to post this.

Where are we on the "it isnt happening, it is happening but not a big deal, it is a good thing" progression?

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://americanmind.org/salvo/thats-not-happening-and-its-good-that-it-is/

The Law of Merited Impossibility

The coinage is Rod Dreher’s and goes back to the early debates on homosexual marriage. As Dreher formulates it, the Law of Merited Impossibility holds: “That will never happen, and when it does, boy will you [homophobes, transphobes, racists, sexists, whatever] deserve it.”

This Law is used, first, to disarm resistance to the latest leftist enthusiasm. Whatever the innovation is, it will have no adverse consequences. None! Puberty blockers and disfiguring surgeries have no downsides whatsoever. How dare you suggest they might!

Its second purpose is to dismiss out of hand “slippery slope” arguments—despite, or because of, the fact that every single such argument over the last twenty years at least has proved true. Worried that allowing people to “self-identify” as whatever sex they want will lead to pervy 50-year-old men exposing themselves to’ tween girls? Insist, loudly and indignantly, that that will NEVER happen and anyone who suggests it might is an alarmist bigot with a heart full of hate.

The third purpose is to enforce the new caste system. Those who get to impose fresh irrational indignities on the rest of us are the upper caste. Those who object, or even have reservations, are lower. The latter are not allowed to harbor, much less express, any doubts. Whatever humiliation the upper caste has planned for us, we deserve and must meekly accept. Hence when said pervy 50-year-old actually does start waving around “her” equipment in the girls’ locker room, if any parent dares object, let ’em have it with both barrels. That thing that ten seconds ago you said would “never” happen? Now it’s righteous punishment for the retrograde.

The Law of Merited Impossibility has done wonders for the Left in helping to ram through a wide variety of radical societal changes and cow into silence all opposition. It’s currently busy destroying girls’ and women’s sports, an outcome that we were assured would “never” happen. Though one wonders what the ladies did do to deserve it.

The Law is a bit passé, though, because our rulers rarely any longer feel the need to reassure normie Americans that everything will turn out OK, that the things we most fear won’t happen. Mostly, the holders of the Megaphone just skip to the second half, the angry insistence that we deserve it

The Law of Salutary Contradiction

Which brings us to the Law of Salutary Contradiction, whose formulation is: “That’s not happening and it’s good that it is.” While the Law of Merited Impossibility applies to the future, this one is about the present. It’s what the ruling class immediately switches to after what they insisted would “never” happen is happening before everyone’s eyes.

Is the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson? That’s an insane conspiracy theory … which is also warranted by Tucker’s treasonous contacts with Russian officials as he seeks an interview with Putin.

Is the Biden Administration inviting in illegal immigrants, then putting them on military planes and shipping them to the heartland? Absolutely not … and these future Nobel Prize winners deserve their shot at the American Dream.

Once you learn to recognize this pattern, you see it everywhere.

[Longtobefree]

"elite National Internet Intelligence Investigations team"

Appoint only members from the House of Lords, and they will have the knights who ARE niii.

[Cyto]

OK, that was elite

[Chumby]

Well done, sir.

[BYODB]

So you're telling me Britain now has the Knights of Niii?

Are you allowed to say the agency name in front of old women? What is their position on shrubbery?

[mad.casual]

Just wait until they're completely incapacitated by the pronoun "it", reacting to it as though it were literally violence. Then you can just ride away.

[Medulla Oblongata]

UK, welcome to the Caliphate.

[AT]

I'll bet it only monitors the ones in English. The ones in Arabic are assumed diverse and beautiful.