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In China, the government has the ability to make me disappear whereas a silicon valley corp. can't. That's the major difference here.
by cameronbrown 7y ago
In China, the government has the ability to make me disappear whereas a silicon valley corp. can't. That's the major difference here.
- Finnucane 7y agoTrue, they can just ruin your life, but at least they can't just kill you. That makes it totally okay.
- cameronbrown 7y agoThat's at least something citizens can act upon. In China they'll just bury you.
- anamexis 7y agoJust like citizens can act up on, say, getting blackballed by Google and having their email gone forever?
- greenyoda 7y agoIt's easy for citizens to fight back against that - by not using Google as their email provider (and educating others about the risks). There are many free and paid alternatives to Gmail.
- vorpalhex 7y agoAre you comparing losing your email versus being kidnapped and held in jail without access to a lawyer or courts?
- anamexis 7y agoNo, I'm saying this is a thing that deeply impacts people's lives which they cannot, in fact, "act upon" when they are wronged.
- cameronbrown 7y agoTake regular backups has always been good advice, that doesn't go away just because a company handles your email for you. Always take archives from cloud services just like you backup HDDs, use a custom domain to forward inbound email traffic and you'll be 100% protected. You chose the worst example of Google being able to ruin somebody's life when if they really wanted to be evil, they'd have a monumental amount of data for blackmail, the ability to silence you online, etc..
- dlphn___xyz 7y agojust wait til the red flag law gets passed
- neonIcon 7y agoCareful there dlphn__xyz... I'd hate to have to report you /s
- throwawaymanbot 7y agoStill Not a valid reason to allow this abomination to happen here. You dont think that some Govt Dept wont strong arm this technology to do things to you and everyone who supports you?