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No. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-369404345862 https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-369404345862

by websites2023 5y ago

h3cate 5y ago
Ah you must not of heard of Edward Snowden
LegitShady 5y ago
This is a strawman "fact check". They disprove something that was never alleged to seem as if they're fact checking when in fact they're just trying to protect politicians trying to get corporations to intrude into your speech and privacy. What was said was the DNC was trying to get the text message providers to monitor the text, not that the DNC could read your text messages. The text message providers can absolutely monitor your texts. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccina... >Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages. It was never "the DNC can read your texts".
- smoldesu 5y ago
  Not sure why you're being downvoted when this is a proven privacy issue. It's not about democrats v. republicans or iPhone vs Android, it's about our leadership as a whole, and what kinds of powers they have. The fact that our government even has access to our private communications should feel like a conflict of interests, especially in a nation that prides itself on freedom.
  - LegitShady 5y ago
    because people are so polarized the idea of engaging corporations to intrude on your private messages is ok if its your 'team'. People never seem to realize what they're setting up are mechanisms and agreements that will facilitate further interventions. The mechanisms will be used against everyone, forever. This is just further increasing the centralization of power behind politicians who never deserve it and who use it on people with no power to resist, no matter whose team they're on. or they realize and are so pre-occupied with their team they don't care, which is sad and short sighted.

No. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-369404345862 https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-369404345862

Ah you must not of heard of Edward Snowden

This is a strawman "fact check". They disprove something that was never alleged to seem as if they're fact checking when in fact they're just trying to protect politicians trying to get corporations to intrude into your speech and privacy. What was said was the DNC was trying to get the text message providers to monitor the text, not that the DNC could read your text messages. The text message providers can absolutely monitor your texts. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccina... >Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages. It was never "the DNC can read your texts".

smoldesu 5y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted when this is a proven privacy issue. It's not about democrats v. republicans or iPhone vs Android, it's about our leadership as a whole, and what kinds of powers they have. The fact that our government even has access to our private communications should feel like a conflict of interests, especially in a nation that prides itself on freedom.
- LegitShady 5y ago
  because people are so polarized the idea of engaging corporations to intrude on your private messages is ok if its your 'team'. People never seem to realize what they're setting up are mechanisms and agreements that will facilitate further interventions. The mechanisms will be used against everyone, forever. This is just further increasing the centralization of power behind politicians who never deserve it and who use it on people with no power to resist, no matter whose team they're on. or they realize and are so pre-occupied with their team they don't care, which is sad and short sighted.