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Posted by samfriedman 10/29/2025

ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship(www.404media.co)
389 points | 343 commentspage 3
esalman 10/30/2025|
Someone masquerading as an ICE agent is actually going door to door in our neighborhood this morning, asking about a "pedophile". It is a pretty affluent neighborhood with average house prices over $1m.
mperham 10/29/2025||
I presume this is powered by data collected by the face scanners at airports when you go thru security?
t0bia_s 10/30/2025||
So lets scan faces of agents and identify them. We can use those technologies in both ways.
crote 10/30/2025|
They, of course, wear full face masks.
micromacrofoot 10/29/2025||
Any shred of trust that was left in our federal agencies is going straight down the drain.
zzzeek 10/29/2025||
the people who run YC and Hacker News have Peter Thiel's phone number.

that's all I'm saying

notahacker 10/29/2025||
They're too busy writing brave, orthodoxy-challenging essays about wokeness...
toomuchtodo 10/29/2025||
They would call and say what? "Go home you crazy weaponized narcissist, you're drunk on power and delusions of techo authoritarianism." If you're challenging someone who can hurt you, you should not approach until you are highly confident you are going to win, whatever that looks like.

I hope the folks mentioned are, and continue to remain, somewhere safe while this plays out.

zzzeek 10/30/2025||
More like they'd come out publicly against what Thiel and Palantir are doing, given that they are members of, and colleagues within, the same communities of moneyed tech leadership.
toomuchtodo 10/30/2025||
And...what would that change about what Thiel and Palantir doing? A strongly worded letter will not lead to meaningful change against someone who does not care.
zzzeek 11/2/2025||
huh? public figures should not speak out against things they disapprove of, particularly by people they are known to be closely associated with? at the very least they should do it for themselves, to publicly distance themselves from something they disapprove of. Otherwise, we assume they approve, and that is the actual point of my post, which is as long as they stay silent about their colleague, we have to assume YC types have no problem with this stuff. (which we knew anyway. but their silence confirms it).

like here's most of RFK Jr.s actual family saying he should resign: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/rfk-jrs-family-members... what losers! they should have said nothing and stayed silent. because what's the use right? The use is at the very least, we know that they, the immediate family members, do not approve of their sibling's actions.

jameslai 10/30/2025||
Do they just deport tourists? What is the plan here?
ericzawo 10/29/2025||
"Pick up that can."
linuxlizard 10/29/2025|
"I'm behind on my beatings."
nowaymo6237 10/29/2025||
Nice to see the post 9/11 digital surveillance and beyond finally get its usage by a fascist takeover
intalentive 10/29/2025||
The funny thing is these heavy handed tactics don’t scale. ICE’s own statistics show that deportations are down from the Biden Administration’s numbers last year. So what’s the point? To scare people? To set a precedent? To normalize civil rights abuses? Any right-leaning people who support this should understand that it could easily be used against them.
cornhole 10/30/2025|
the gestapo is in town
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