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Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance'

submitted by JumpCr+(OP) on 2026-02-04 19:31:27 | 71 points 30 comments
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5. janice+Wr[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-04 21:42:34
>>theamk+Fb
Intent matters though. Malicious actors, who are very much in power, will use the information to target universities and ideas [1] they don't like. Don't build databases for your enemies. Censuses were a great tool too, until certain people took power, then destroying them became the moral thing to do [2].

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Amsterdam_civil_registry_...

6. nesk_+0t[view] [source] 2026-02-04 21:48:22
>>JumpCr+(OP)
https://archive.is/HJa8N
14. frogpe+WI[view] [source] 2026-02-04 23:13:46
>>JumpCr+(OP)
I think its important that everyone learn to recognize the 14 points of fascism.

https://public.websites.umich.edu/~rsc/Editorials/fascism.ht...

In this case, we can recognize: "11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts".

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18. stop50+8U[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-05 00:27:58
>>frogpe+WI
I personally favor the features of "Ur-Fascism" by Umberto Eco:

1. cult of tradition

2. rejection of modernism

3. action for action’s sake

4. disagreement is treason

5. fear of difference

6. appeal to a frustrated middle class

7. obsession with a plot

8. the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

9. pacifism is trafficking with the enemy.

10. contempt for the weak

11. everybody is educated to become a hero

12. machismo - both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality,[...] Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons

13. selective populism

14. Newspeak

These are only his major points of his speach in 1995. The speach is at the moment available here: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

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