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It's less intrusive than spamming my Google assistant quick actions with an undismissable "black lives matter" button for the last couple weeks. When tapped, it

It's less intrusive than spamming my Google assistant quick actions with an undismissable "black lives matter" button for the last couple weeks. When tapped, it affirms BLM solidarity vow. My phone region wasn't even North America. More ontopic, wonder if this will be extended to other minorities. Easy way to filter out actually Mexican owned taco shops. Or Japanese owned sushi. What let's go full political, what if I want to avoid Christian owned franchises like Chick-Fil-A. Maybe some of that Blue Vs Yellow division from HK.

dgellow 6y ago
> My phone region wasn't even North America. The spread of US internal issues to the rest of the world is quite frightening to be honest. A social unrest in North America has way, way more influence in Europeans countries than our own local issues (I'm in the EU), and both our news and politicians react quickly to it, even though US problems are mostly irrelevant here. Even without living close to America, or try to be only consuming local content, it is impossible to avoid whatever is happening there. This country has really too much impact over the rest of the world, which wouldn’t be necessarily an issue if not for the fact that it is widely dysfunctional.
- dirtyid 6y ago
  Basically. The world can't even get competent contact tracing apps running because it must comform to US / Silicon Valley privacy standards. Google/Apple rebuffing sovereign governments to implement more granular models, because it'll open domestic privacy pandora's box. They're too big for America, let alone the rest of the world.
- sildur 6y ago
  It’s cultural colonialism, the way they force their problems over the rest of the world.
  - stef25 6y ago
    There's nothing being forced on us here in the EU in the context of BLM. It's more the case that people here lap it up, copying all the same narratives, terminology and practices. This goes for both ends of the political spectrum. It's pretty worrying.
    - dgellow 6y ago
      Yes, that’s a good way to describe it. I don’t think colonialism is a meaningful analogy here.

dgellow 6y ago

> My phone region wasn't even North America. The spread of US internal issues to the rest of the world is quite frightening to be honest. A social unrest in North America has way, way more influence in Europeans countries than our own local issues (I'm in the EU), and both our news and politicians react quickly to it, even though US problems are mostly irrelevant here. Even without living close to America, or try to be only consuming local content, it is impossible to avoid whatever is happening there. This country has really too much impact over the rest of the world, which wouldn’t be necessarily an issue if not for the fact that it is widely dysfunctional.

dirtyid 6y ago
Basically. The world can't even get competent contact tracing apps running because it must comform to US / Silicon Valley privacy standards. Google/Apple rebuffing sovereign governments to implement more granular models, because it'll open domestic privacy pandora's box. They're too big for America, let alone the rest of the world.
sildur 6y ago
It’s cultural colonialism, the way they force their problems over the rest of the world.
- stef25 6y ago
  There's nothing being forced on us here in the EU in the context of BLM. It's more the case that people here lap it up, copying all the same narratives, terminology and practices. This goes for both ends of the political spectrum. It's pretty worrying.
  - dgellow 6y ago
    Yes, that’s a good way to describe it. I don’t think colonialism is a meaningful analogy here.