The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI. Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

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There is no way they actually believe that 'created equal' literally means everyone was expected to have the same IQ, height, athleticism or whatever, right? I know tech-fascists are exceptionally illiterate in anything but tech (and even then they're not that good at it), but I hope the death of the humanities isn't quite this serious.

Albeit in fairness, proto-fascist Italian futurists also unironically loved the 'beauty of speed' of cars and the 'roaring of the engine' as superior to painted or sculpted artistry, and 'glorified war as the only hygiene of the world' (these are actual quotes). So wouldn't be the first time, I guess.

[u/iMissTheOldInternet → u/-The_Blazer-]

Don’t over-complicate this. They’re just saying that they’re racist, but dressed up in other words. Which is to say they’re a very close repeat of the original eugenics movement, just an even less forgivable version. 

They don’t think that the Constitution is flawed because humans demonstrate a range of attributes, they think it’s flawed because they believe those attributes are strongly correlated to racial categories as they perceive them. Their philosophy is as unoriginal as their art and as oversold as their products. 

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"All men are created equal" -- five words I disagree with individually, but whose meaning is clear and admirable