Get ready for the next phase of the war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions.
Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch list.
If we don’t nip this in the bud, and soon, this will become yet another pretext by which government officials can violate the First and Fourth Amendments at will.
This is how it begins.
In communities across the nation, police are being empowered to forcibly detain individuals they believe might be mentally ill, based solely on their own judgment, even if those individuals pose no danger to others.
In New York City, for example, you could find yourself forcibly hospitalized for suspected mental illness if you carry “firmly held beliefs not congruent with cultural ideas,” exhibit a “willingness to engage in meaningful discussion,” have “excessive fears of specific stimuli,” or refuse “voluntary treatment recommendations.”
While these programs are ostensibly aimed at getting the homeless off the streets, when combined with advances in mass surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence-powered programs that can track people by their biometrics and behavior,mental health sensor data (tracked by wearable data and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA), threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, precrime initiatives, red flag gun laws, and mental health first-aid programs aimed at training gatekeepers to identify who might pose a threat to public safety, they could well signal a tipping point in the government’s efforts to penalize those engaging in so-called “thought crimes.”
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This is one aspect of AI that likely will be front and center being used by these evil entities to squash any and all push back with their agenda. Hence the recent admission of scraping everything from the internet search engine and social media. Plus likely everything past all ready stored by the NSA. Used to identify and monitor and if necessary isolate and retain individuals. Either with public flare or quietly depending on how these entities want the result to be viewed. Remember everything searched for and that is posted on the internet whether anonymous or not is never deleted and easily identifiable. Even if using a virtual machine or VPN. Imagine believing that that anyone elected to office are pure in their thoughts and really has everyone’s best interest at heart, well place that same belief in your VPN or social media site or your cell phone security. Nothing is secure. Everyone will be assigned a threat score and be monitored accordingly. It will take some work to confuse the system, but some will be successful. Turning acceptable words or phrases to mean something else entirely.
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