If they're selling surveillance tech to law enforcement (especially American law enforcement, who will deploy it disproportionately against marginalized groups), they're fascists. Simple as.
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If this paragraph is factual - and I have no reason to doubt that it is -- that's pretty fascistic behavior!
> Journalists were another target. In May 2017, Bass emailed Cassandra Fairbanks, a far-right activist whom the first Trump administration allowed into press briefings, to ask for the names and emails of reporters in the White House press pool. This would potentially enable Ton-That and his partners to surface social media accounts, pull photos, and, as Bass put it, investigate the “leanings” of the journalists. Fairbanks quickly sent the names and emails of eight reporters to Bass, who forwarded the details to Ton-That. “These shills are high-priority,” Bass wrote. “Dope this is going into smartcheckr,” Ton-That replied. The company later created a “Politicians – Academics – Journalists” category in its biometric database.
Likewise this one..
> Ton-That and Johnson quickly bonded. They brainstormed “alt-tech” ideas and a few months later, in early 2017, launched Smartcheckr, Clearview’s predecessor. Ton-That also got to know Duke and other radicals associated with Johnson, including Marko Jukic, a self-described extremist Catholic traditionalist who once argued that diversity is “corrosive to civilization”; Tyler Bass, a white nationalist who, according to his former girlfriend, attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia; and far-right influencer Douglass Mackey, who used a pseudonymous social media persona to disseminate Nazi propaganda and advocate for “global white supremacy.”
These are not good people..
The article doesn't say that.
> What proof do they have?
They do provide links to information on the organization they refer to as fascist. You can draw your own conclusions, but it seems fairly comprehensive.
> I doubt what motherjones is saying.
Considering you're making up stuff about what they said, I can see why.
> I checked.
If you did, you failed.
> "That" (the founder of Clearview AI) is from Australia and seems to have been an artist.
I was not aware that an artist from Austria couldn't be fascist.
> MJ should be careful with their articles.
You should be careful with your comments.
Silly charges being blatant stealing of public money with obvious and well visible for anyone to see proof? Yes, a bunch of French politicians have been sued for corruption and stealing public money, and they have all received bans from pursuing office and/or house arrest/prison sentence. Do you have anything to say that invalidates the proven in court evidence? It has been known and proven for years she used her EU MEP budget (that was for her role as an MEP) to pay for personal and party expenses. Neither her nor her party hid it.
> Another European country cancelled an election because a candidate was likely to win they the people in power didn’t like.
No, because he obviously violated election law by lying on his financial declaration (declared campaign funding of 0, yet had tons of paid ads for him). Again, do you have anything to say against the proven in court crimes or are you again just ignoring reality to sell a narrative.
> They even revoke citizenships — then deport the people. Is France fascist
Of terrorists, if they have another citizenship, yes. All countries do this.
> Donald Trump is trying to reduce the size and scope of the U.S. government and reduce regulation — literally the opposite of fascism
I think nobody is calling that part fascism. The failed coup attempt, ignoring laws and courts to rule by decree, sending random people with no due process to detention camps, including abroad, requesting bribes. That part is clear cut fascism.