The scary part of this is that it can be used to target "those people" like atheists or LGBTQ or POC.
Want to go paint swastikas on someone's house? Check the app for where the Jews are!
Need to know who is behind the petition circulating around school to bring back banned books, or supporting LGBTQ kids? Check the app, see if anyone made a note about rainbow flags!
Want to SWAT someone? There it is, right on the APP!
The Mercers are tax evading billionaires who developed the original “targeting” software at Cambridge Analytica/ Emeradata. They are Dominionist FASCISTS who, no surprise, are good friends with the DeVoss-Prince family (you might recall Eric Prince, the murderous founder of Blackwater, who does covert operations with equally murderous people from the Middle East and Russia . . .and his sister, Betsy, carrying out the dismantling functions of Libertarianism at the Education Dept. . . .her husband’s Michigan hospital “pinged” messaging to/from the Kremlin to Trump’s WH . . . ) These sanctimonious, dangerous fascists were targeting voters on Facebook and Twitter before there were “apps.”
Just because this is legal (to me this is worse than the threat from Tik Tok, because you can choose not to be a part of TT.) doesn’t make this ethical. But ethics are not a concern for evangelicals. Maybe it’s because their morals are based on abject obedience, or because they’re more concerned with money and influence, or all of the above.
" One missionary told TNR that he used information about which homes have children to send them invitations to Vacation Bible School. Harmless enough—just more junk mail—but it’s not hard to imagine how that information could be used for more direct forms of contact later on. "
The United States enjoys as much religious freedom as can be found on planet earth, and I will never understand why that isn't enough for some Christians. Anyone who wants to hear about the many flavors of Jesus has no trouble doing so. Churches abound, religious broadcasters are everywhere, and Christian bookstores aren't hard to find. Never the less, these people are so driven to force their views on others they're now using computers to target possible marks. There isn't much of anything that cannot be justified in the name of religion.
My immediate thought: Download the app and write a note about myself! "If you show up at my door, I'm going to thrust a copy of the book I wrote about your religion in your face and challenge you to read it! Is your faith really strong? I've read your Bible, so fair is fair. Come back after you've read my book and I promise I'll talk with you."
Years ago, they were geo-fencing women ar abortion clinics. So, this is an obvious, distopian upgrade. It bring a whole new meanibg to Big Brother is watching.
Not only can christians target your, pedophiles and sexual predators can easily locate homes where a parent might be in the hospita. While they arel being "prayed" for, their children are being preyed for.
Given the volume of shootings in religious centers, this will certainly make hate crimes easier. What's a little antisemitism between neighbors?
"Mother is in hospital" isn't publically available information, it's privately shared, privileged information. Imagine having an ambulance rush your spouse to the hospital only to return home hours later to discover you have been burgled. How? This app flagged you for prayer with private medical details, and criminals used that to target your home.
What's to stop a nosy, spiteful neighbor from broadcasting your every move?
The government watching you is one thing, they don't care about you until you cross certain lines. Your neighbors, they're watching for you to cross any lines
And when you're an atheist whose neighbors are broadcasting your every move to christian nationalists targeting you, harm is just a notification away.
Well, big surprise. Turns out, evangelicals are all about the money ... YOUR money. And they'll dun you any way they can to get it. This kind of shameless moneygrubbing is disturbing if utterly unsurprising. What they are trying to do is build the influence of their church, of course, buy their way into power and position, much in the same way as Dimwit Donald does with his rallies.
They just do it with the tithing plate rather than with MAGA hats.
Remember, these are the same people who vehemently oppose China's credit score system. Now, they have created an identical christian credit score system.
What's the difference between Chinese communism and christianity? The spelling.
You didn't find a way to opt out either, right? That's what makes me so crazy. If downloading the app and adding notes saying that I kill and eat all proselytizers who come to my door would make that information visible to every user of the app then THAT would be a useful feature. But I don't think the notes are for anything other than the gamification (sp?) of their own personal brand of evangelical weirdness. And the dangers of the app are so obvious. I do wonder if TCOS could purchase access to this app, for helpful information on future converts. Turnabout is fair play and all.
I don’t like the idea they flag houses with children! With all the pedophiles in Christian organizations, that is one invasion of privacy too far.
The scary part of this is that it can be used to target "those people" like atheists or LGBTQ or POC.
Want to go paint swastikas on someone's house? Check the app for where the Jews are!
Need to know who is behind the petition circulating around school to bring back banned books, or supporting LGBTQ kids? Check the app, see if anyone made a note about rainbow flags!
Want to SWAT someone? There it is, right on the APP!
Insane.
Christians are predators.
The Mercers are tax evading billionaires who developed the original “targeting” software at Cambridge Analytica/ Emeradata. They are Dominionist FASCISTS who, no surprise, are good friends with the DeVoss-Prince family (you might recall Eric Prince, the murderous founder of Blackwater, who does covert operations with equally murderous people from the Middle East and Russia . . .and his sister, Betsy, carrying out the dismantling functions of Libertarianism at the Education Dept. . . .her husband’s Michigan hospital “pinged” messaging to/from the Kremlin to Trump’s WH . . . ) These sanctimonious, dangerous fascists were targeting voters on Facebook and Twitter before there were “apps.”
Just because this is legal (to me this is worse than the threat from Tik Tok, because you can choose not to be a part of TT.) doesn’t make this ethical. But ethics are not a concern for evangelicals. Maybe it’s because their morals are based on abject obedience, or because they’re more concerned with money and influence, or all of the above.
And they say atheists are immoral.
" One missionary told TNR that he used information about which homes have children to send them invitations to Vacation Bible School. Harmless enough—just more junk mail—but it’s not hard to imagine how that information could be used for more direct forms of contact later on. "
Groooooooooooooooming.
The United States enjoys as much religious freedom as can be found on planet earth, and I will never understand why that isn't enough for some Christians. Anyone who wants to hear about the many flavors of Jesus has no trouble doing so. Churches abound, religious broadcasters are everywhere, and Christian bookstores aren't hard to find. Never the less, these people are so driven to force their views on others they're now using computers to target possible marks. There isn't much of anything that cannot be justified in the name of religion.
My immediate thought: Download the app and write a note about myself! "If you show up at my door, I'm going to thrust a copy of the book I wrote about your religion in your face and challenge you to read it! Is your faith really strong? I've read your Bible, so fair is fair. Come back after you've read my book and I promise I'll talk with you."
Years ago, they were geo-fencing women ar abortion clinics. So, this is an obvious, distopian upgrade. It bring a whole new meanibg to Big Brother is watching.
Not only can christians target your, pedophiles and sexual predators can easily locate homes where a parent might be in the hospita. While they arel being "prayed" for, their children are being preyed for.
Given the volume of shootings in religious centers, this will certainly make hate crimes easier. What's a little antisemitism between neighbors?
"Mother is in hospital" isn't publically available information, it's privately shared, privileged information. Imagine having an ambulance rush your spouse to the hospital only to return home hours later to discover you have been burgled. How? This app flagged you for prayer with private medical details, and criminals used that to target your home.
What's to stop a nosy, spiteful neighbor from broadcasting your every move?
The government watching you is one thing, they don't care about you until you cross certain lines. Your neighbors, they're watching for you to cross any lines
And when you're an atheist whose neighbors are broadcasting your every move to christian nationalists targeting you, harm is just a notification away.
Everything about these people is fucking creepy.
Well, big surprise. Turns out, evangelicals are all about the money ... YOUR money. And they'll dun you any way they can to get it. This kind of shameless moneygrubbing is disturbing if utterly unsurprising. What they are trying to do is build the influence of their church, of course, buy their way into power and position, much in the same way as Dimwit Donald does with his rallies.
They just do it with the tithing plate rather than with MAGA hats.
"Not a witch."
"Witch."
"Needs exorcism right away."
"Not home between the hours of."
"Keeps jewelry upstairs."
Remember, these are the same people who vehemently oppose China's credit score system. Now, they have created an identical christian credit score system.
What's the difference between Chinese communism and christianity? The spelling.
You didn't find a way to opt out either, right? That's what makes me so crazy. If downloading the app and adding notes saying that I kill and eat all proselytizers who come to my door would make that information visible to every user of the app then THAT would be a useful feature. But I don't think the notes are for anything other than the gamification (sp?) of their own personal brand of evangelical weirdness. And the dangers of the app are so obvious. I do wonder if TCOS could purchase access to this app, for helpful information on future converts. Turnabout is fair play and all.
OT: just saw this notification: Trump can't secure $454 million appeal bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say. Boo fucking hoo
No, that's not creepy. Not at all.