“Immigrants are rough, dirty pieces with ***.” This is a type of statement that the target will no longer refer to as hate speech on their platforms on Facebook and Instagram, according to the rules of the announced UA leaked A document circulating the company for days before Donald Trump’s inauguration. Politics are reportedly needed because the classification of such statements as hate speech, according to the target of executive director Mark Zuckerberg, is “beyond contact with the main discourse”.
This change in what represents the “mainstream” speech was needed to prepare the soil for Trump’s new immigration policy, and it signals a suitable and profitable arrangement between those who control data and those who control boundaries. The alignment was clearly visible on the day of the inauguration, where the great executive directors, the so -called Brooligari, were honorary guests after they gave significant donations to Trump’s campaign.
But the Big Tech that offers its support services for brutal immigration policies is not a new phenomenon. Because before Trump, the US Government is a partner with technological companies to build an extensive supervision apparatus that can target not only immigrants, but also anyone.
Instead of relying solely on the information that can be raised lawfully, the government has supplemented these records with information that bought from the data brokerage, which provide extensive profiles about anyone demographic, health, educational, insurance and financial data – any data were captured by your phone, car or municipal gauge.
Companies like Palantir, Amazon, Salesforce and others have offered their services to integrate all those different sources of information into tools that can be used to target immigrants. Among the services that the Immigration and Customs Agency (ICE) is active is what it calls “predictive analytics and modeling.” It is estimated that since 2020, ICE and other related agencies spent almost $ 7.8 billion through $ 15,000 with 263 private corporations on immigration technologies.
Since 2004, the US Government has also been investing more resources in “e-carcification”, which includes technologies such as ankle bracelet. In 2018, Ice joined the bi Inc to create a smartlink, a telephone application that focuses on tracking as a “humane” alternative to custody. Despite their claims about privacy, independent reports describe how Smartlink collects all kinds of sensitive data, including “face paintings, voice prints, medical information, pregnancy and birth.”
The government also collected a huge amount of DNA immigrants as part of the project started during Trump’s first term, but continued Joe Biden. Authorities claim that their data will help them resolve the future crimes committed by migrants, although official statistics show that on average immigrants, they make smaller criminal offenses than citizens born in the United States.
The role of the Big Tech implementation of American immigration policy will only expand under Trump’s second term. The President has not lost time in good promises about his promises to the campaign, issuing numerous executive commands that are already transformed by immigration policy.
These orders aim to end citizenship right to birth, expand attacks on “shrine” areas like schools and churches, process citizens who refuse to cooperate with the authorities, end the immigrant release while waiting for their cases, cancel all the asylum nominations and expand the pool of unprovented individuals is a rapid deportation-execution of other measures.
Trump’s executive commands can be challenged in courts. Which is why the legitimization of hate speech in the public sphere is crucial: it can provide their main approval and thus discourage legal challenges. There are major technological companies that need to play a big role, thanks to the abduction of free speech.
“Free Speech”, when one -man is managed by powerful, can be a form of censorship, weapons of oppression and destruction. We saw that in Mjanmar in 2017and we see it in Palestine today. In these cases and others, companies like Meta and X have played an active role in using technology to promote speech demonizing vulnerable groups, opening the door to physical acts of violence against them.
The combination of extremist politics and corporate technologies in the service of rhetoric against immigrant-like anti-black, anti-women, anti-lgbtq and antimuscan rhetoric will create a burning public sphere for the next few years. Mjanmar did not humiliate great technology; He assured the type of power he could break.
Because of this, companies like Meta and X are now doing the opposite of what would be necessary for something like that to not happen again (in terms of moderation, safety and privacy), and they make this power available to Trump, as we saw in Springfield, Ohio, where have encouraged social media against the immigrant on the eve of US presidential elections.
Dealing with this problem is not just a matter of gaining a media literacy skill needed to fight misinformation circulating on Facebook or X. in post-Isastic, world after literacy, everyone on these platforms understand that the narrative with the most “loves” loves “or” shares ” It wins and becomes a reality – at least for them.
Although it is appropriate to blame Trump and his supporters for disasters that will soon develop in the immediate future, it is important to remember that Democrats have largely supported the neoliberal policy of deregulation and privatization that allowed the Broaligara class to appear in the first place.
Since no side is able to articulate a sustainable political plan to protect basic human rights for immigrants, resistance must appear at local levels. This can be done by challenging illegal deportations in local courts, opposed to misinformation through local media and the strengthening of connections between local, national and international civil organizations. It is encouraging to see cities, villages, churches and schools continuing to adopt the shrine, refusing to cooperate with the Federal Government in the implementation of xenophobic policies, even as he threatens them to Trump’s executive commands.
The opposition will become harder to adopt the comprehensive clerk-fascist state aided by the richest men in the world, men who have acquired their power by competing colonial collection of data. As we watch Genai continue this robbery, we have to reject the well -founded lie of colonialism: that when it comes to access to world resources, it can do it right. The well -being of immigrants, and truly the well -being of all of us, depends largely on whether we can collectively regain the power to dictate which information collected from us and in what purpose we want to use this resource.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeere.
