"Imagine you take a photo of your kid’s rash to send to the doctor…and a few hours later, police show up at your door. They’re not there because of a warrant or anyone complained. They’re there because your phone quietly reported you. Now imagine that same “snitch mode” running on every photo you take, every DM you send, every file you save—all before it’s encrypted, all without a judge ever signing off. That’s not science fiction. It’s called client-side scanning. Governments are actively pushing tech companies to turn it on, and big tech has already built most of the machinery."—Hampton Law

Lawyer: how cops use Apple's new tech to spy on your phone >

https://youtu.be/CtJj-mjH-2Q?si=iUwwYd4r2YEuz-o9

#video #mass_surveillance #big_brother #technology #smartphones #networks #client_side_scanning #iPhones #GDPR_was_a_joke #EU_technocrats #Orwellian_nightmare #surveillance_capitalism #statism #fascism #encryption #AI_assistants #techno_feudalism #Android #Microsoft #Apple #Alphabet #chat_control #CSAM_scan

@ReggieHere

Yes, we don't have real, unlimited #capitalism; we have #statism. But real #socialism is much worse than what we have.

@strike

"‘Mercantilism’ is the name given by late nineteenth century historians to the politico-economic system of the absolute state from approximately the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Mercantilism has been called by various historians or observers a ‘system of Power or State-building’ (Eli Heckscher), a system of systematic state privilege, particularly in restricting imports or subsidizing exports (Adam Smith), or a faulty set of economic theories, including protectionism and the alleged necessity for piling up bullion in a country. In fact, mercantilism was all of these things; it was a comprehensive system of statebuilding, state privilege, and what might be called ‘state monopoly capitalism’.", - Murray N.Rothbard.
#rothbard #aphet #statism #history #economics #mercantilism #capitalism

"Lao Tzu, after referring to the common experience of mankind, came to his penetrating conclusion: ‘The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be’." — Murray N.Rothbard.
#rothbard #laotzu #statism #aphet #austrianeconomics

The rich and powerful want to extend their rule eternally, while we die young and poor on a devastated planet

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/28/how-the-rich-and-powerful-plan-to-live-for-ever

#statism #capitalism #immortality

The only difference between #fascism, #communism, and #socialism is the degree to which the state pretends there is private property. Everything else is just arguing over the color of the jackboots.

https://courses.aynrand.org/lexicon/fascism-and-communism-socialism/

#politics #philosophy #statism #AynRand #Objectivism

@wisdom

He confuses #statism with capitalism.

People hate capitalism that allows them to live, but they must understand that no other system, that is, #socialism or #statism (#interventionism) under which they live now, can solve the #climate problem.

@homohortus

People like to hate #capitalism that allows them to live, but they must, even if they cannot, understand that no other system, that is, #socialism or #statism under which they are living, can solve the #climate problem.

@dhayannada

@pedestrians1st

Under #socialism you will die before climate crisis kills you. Socialism won't work the way you want it to. It won't work at all. #Statism can't help either.

People have never lived better than under #capitalism (even if not pure, but constrained by state intervention). And they will never do that under any other economic system.
#sotialism #statism #interventionism #economics

@Su_G

Where do you see "unregulated capitalism"? We now have "capitalism" that is heavily regulated by the state. There is a crisis of #statism, #interventionism.

@Spoon

In fact, it is #statism that is killing #capitalism.

@yogthos

@globalc

This is not socialism, but (economic) #interventionism, #statism. Read #Mises, #Rothbard on this.

Hayek was a good thinker and a freedom fighter. But I prefer #Mises and #Rothbard. They both left us two brilliant economic treatises: "Human Action" and "Man, Economy, and State with Power and the Market."
https://mises.org/library/book/human-action
https://mises.org/library/book/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market
#economics #politics #capitalism #socialism #statism #history

@PariaSansPortefeuille @histodons @bookstodon

The free market... producing rigged outcomes since forever.

"Intel said the United States would invest $8.9 billion in its stock, on top of $2.2 billion that the government has paid the company under the CHIPS and Science Act, a federal program signed into law in 2022 that delivered billions in grants to revive U.S. semiconductor manufacturing."
#corporatism #riggedmarkets #technology #capitalism #economics #statism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/trump-intel-stake.html

@znetwork

Some people make capitalism the scapegoat for the deeds of #statism.

@ReggieHere

"Trade unions are an essential component of any" statist/etatist #society. #Unions are the best friends of any modern anti-capitalist #government. #capitalism #statism

"Union strikes and restrictions. Unions have become a nuisance with power to cripple the economy, but only as a result of numerous special privileges afforded by the government; especially various immunities accorded unions, particularly the Wagner Act of 1935, still in effect, which compels employers to bargain with unions which gain a majority vote of a “bargaining unit” arbitrarily defined by the government itself."
https://mises.org/online-book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto
#unions #statism #capitalism #unionstrong #economics #humanrights #politics #rothbard #government

@Albbi

You (and everyone else) should first understand the causes of #inequality, which you consider evil. Natural inequality is inevitable, because people are different from each other. But artificial inequality is the result of government #intervention in the economy. You should try to understand it. #statism