People now spend a large percentage of their time online and so many people have done things online over the past few years that are in some way illegal, even if completely by accident.

Everything in 2021 is illegal. The legal system has been designed that way on purpose. There was a young lawyer a few years ago that wrote a book about this called three felonies a day. This is a population control technique. If everyone is always committing high level crimes then you can essentially end their lives at any time. That's a power you see them wielding when individuals or groups of people don't do what they want you to do.

It might sound like a tough pill to swallow but we aren't living under the laws of nation as the founder the nation saw them. We are living under a shadow government that is international in scope and VERY hostile to independent nation states.

Tech giants aren't turning you into police every day because many of these online crimes are ones they want you to commit. They hurt the people oligarchs want to be hurt.

Another interesting book on this topic is The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America by Philip K. Howard.

Big Tech is fully aware of this and yet out of their grace they choose not to report them to the police.

I mean do your really believe these companies are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? They know exactly what they are doing. They also know that getting massive of people thrown in jail might spur normal citizens into regulating them and they don't want that. They want people that are tuned out of real politics, docile, somatized, etc.

So be careful not to do anything that would anger Big Tech. Always be obedient to their rules, and also their hidden unstated rules.

Lol. I just realized your post is critical of big tech in a sarcastic way and I totally fell for it. (I'm a moron I guess and maybe shouldn't post here?). Well maybe someone reading the comments thinking you were being serious will still get something out of my comment.

Right now for me there is a "bug" on YouTube where the comments are in a perpetual state of loading if I am not logged in. I imagine that at some point there might also be a "bug" at some point where if you do something Google doesn't like, your browsing history gets sent to the police so that they can find something to arrest you for.

Seriously though this is terrifying and we need legislation against it immediately. Even if you broke no laws the entire body of your internet history could easily be used against you in a multitude of ways. I think they are doing that now but secretly.

We should call this legislation 'corporate doxxing' i.e. where a corporation leaks your online history on purpose or accidentally. The company should be shut down for it and while the data can't really be removed from the internet you should have legal rights to require other companies not to store it or use it against you. Websites that deal in this illegal personal meta data storage should also be legally gone after. Wherever possible individual identifying information should be scrubbed from online data.

It might sound crazy but I think that if companies (or thinktanks) start doing this shit and we can't get meaningful legislation on it then we should dox EVERYONE including people that own the companies. There were would a lot of societal drama but it might protect the average person. Are you really going to call someone out on their internet history when your own internet history is also easily searchable?? I doubt Zuckerberg is going to have me arrested for googling 'how to steal cable' when his own search history has a thousand entries for how to eat babies.