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Bring listened to by the government is very different from being psychologically manipulated by political parties.
by rohit2412 8y ago
Bring listened to by the government is very different from being psychologically manipulated by political parties.
- komali2 8y agoRight, but I think that's a separate issue than "...means that are not trying to track, tabulate, and sell you and your personal information to the highest bidder."
- CydeWeys 8y agoHonestly, I'd rather be snooped on by a corporation for advertising purposes than snooped on by the government for worse purposes.
- debaserab2 8y agoEven when the ad buyer is a foreign hostile foreign government?
- njarboe 8y agoIn the US at least, being snooped on by a corporation is a subset of being snooped on by the government. All corp snooping is available to the government. In practice, the government often uses corporate snooping to get around laws that would prevent them from legally doing some types of snooping directly.
- jimbokun 8y agoWith Facebook, you get the worst of both of those.
- rohit2412 8y agoPolitical psychological manipulation is also done via advertising. I think the scary part of 1984 was not that the govt spies on its citizens, but that the govt tries to control their thoughts themselves. If thought crime is eliminated via newspeak, the spying is meaningless