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At least we can punish American companies if they do something shady.
by system2 4y ago
At least we can punish American companies if they do something shady.
- Bud 4y agoCan we? That seems to very much depend on who is in power and who has benefitted from the shadiness in question.
- ProAm 4y agoI think Ed Snowden proved to us this is not true. Room 614a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
- LarryMullins 4y agoThat was revealed several years before Snowden's defection.
- lmm 4y agoAnd yet nothing was done about it.
- LarryMullins 4y agoNor since. ProAm clarified that these were intended as two separate examples, so fair enough. It just rubs me the wrong way when people seem to give credit to Snowden for revealing things which were already known.
- ProAm 4y agoI meant that as two different things, both were largely disregarded as punishable.
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoSure, but since we explicitly won't, I feel that a lot of this outrage is just BS. As a US citizen, I'm far more concerned with the US government knowing where I am at all times than China. We could pass a law that forbids the US government to consume any personally identifiable data from social media platforms without a warrant, but we won't.