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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:14

• "When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

• We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason."

[#]Libraries #Librarians #Rwsist #Politics #Anarchist

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:14

• "We figured, what's the fun in just telling them there's nothing? What the feds always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause.

• We developed a compliance policy just for the Patriot Act."

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:15

"We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee."

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:15

"Well, WAS. The office of Patriot Act compliance would be assigned to whichever employee had just left our library. And gosh, it's just such a mess around here, you know."

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:15

Unfortunately nobody can remember the password to the system that has those records. So we have to get IT involved, which means running through more detailed security resets to make sure other systems aren't compromised. It should take a couple weeks.

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Written by Odin Halvorson on 2025-02-02 at 23:15

"The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request.

Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting. "

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Written by Nicole Parsons on 2025-02-03 at 04:16

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A lot of people forget how Republicans used the hysteria of 9/11 to gain powers that they later used against domestic political opponents, dissidents, advocates, & journalists

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238

https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/oracle-s-coziness-with-government-goes-back-to-2820370.php

https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/ubiquitous-surveillance-and-civil-rights-infringements-tragic-legacy-911

Ubiquitous surveillance being its most enduring legacy

https://www.newsweek.com/death-western-valuessurveillance-conformity-post-9-11-state-opinion-1906892

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/02/two-decades-later-the-enduring-legacy-of-9-11/

https://www.nyclu.org/report/repression-surveillance-and-resistance-20-years-after-911

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_War_Home

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_in_Plain_Sight_(Kendzior_book)

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Written by D K, verycyber on 2025-02-03 at 15:12

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Dear Larry:

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