Philly Cops Are Reportedly Monitoring Anti-AI Memes, According to Internal Alert

The Constitution and centuries of case law have done an adequate job of enshrining the right to protest in America. But according to the Trump administration, those rights are all but forfeit if the target of a protester’s ire is an AI data center. By their logic, publicly expressing a desire to have a water-hogging, environment-polluting, perpetually buzzing superstructure built in the middle of one’s community is tantamount to strapping on a suicide vest. As such, the administration—which has gone all-in on America’s AI future and has seen the President personally enriched for it—is trying to brand opponents to that future as terrorists. Nearly half of Americans have negative views of AI, and 7 in 10 don’t want data centers built in their communities. Nonetheless, a trench of reports by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and fusion centers recently obtained by WIRED indicate the administration is actively targeting such individuals, whom they’ve labeled “anti-tech extremists.” The chilling news comes in the wake of the National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, released last September, which attempted to paint other fuzzy yet Constitutionally protected charges—like being