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Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Bellingcat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Bellingcat</span></a></span> The ‘content moderators’ at <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> , <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> etc… are the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/cyberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyberspace</span></a> equivalent of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MallCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MallCops</span></a>. It’s fine to have them present, but who would want to live in a city where they were responsible for <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PublicSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicSafety</span></a> ?</p>
Miia Mustang<p>You know how US cops are basically a bunch of unvetted and loosely trained sociopaths/murderers/fascists?</p><p>I feel Finland's equivalent of that is our private security industry.</p><p>Like... As bad as our cops are, they at least make "some" attempts of not using too much force (it does happen, but they try not to use lethal force).</p><p>Whereas our private security companies has had a past of:</p><p>- Maintaining (illegal) registries and profiles of "undesireables"</p><p>- Systematically neglecting beatings/assaults committed by their employees</p><p>- Lobbying municipalities (especially the City of Helsinki) into spending absurd amounts of money for what amounts to extrajudicial street patrols.</p><p>- Cultivating a culture of violence and racism within their workplaces.</p><p>So like... While these are nowhere near as deadly OR have qualified immunity in legal terms, I think there's a certain similarity between these firms and the way US cops are.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MallCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MallCops</span></a></p>
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