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> Something similar would happen at FAANGM. ... lean on those companies to collect whatever data the state wants. Well, that has already happened. The NSA went
by greenyoda 5y ago
> Something similar would happen at FAANGM. ... lean on those companies to collect whatever data the state wants.
Well, that has already happened. The NSA went to Google and other companies and asked them to implement PRISM, and they did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
- voakbasda 5y agoRight? This comment thread reads like this sort of thing hasn’t already happened here. But it has. The US may not be the most authoritarian regime, but I think that its recent actions scream authoritarianism louder than any words claiming that it’s not.