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Unless and until the security state and neocon/neolib corporatist* power complex is ripped out of our government this will never stop and the People will lose t
by user3939382 4y ago
Unless and until the security state and neocon/neolib corporatist* power complex is ripped out of our government this will never stop and the People will lose this war.
It's much harder to rescind a law than pass it, which means they only have to win once and we have to win every time. We are doomed by this asymmetry.
- anaganisk 4y agoI found the comments under the TikTok ban thread the other day and asked, Why are you so concerned about China, which can do nothing, while other apps collect the data in the country you are in has the actual power to jail you because, you support abortion or LGBTQ. The mental gymnastics were, US has a due process of law and China is an authoritarian dictatorship, while they still live in the US and China can't extradite them. People constantly fail to realize, the views change, what's legal today could be illegal tomorrow, and you will absolutely be profiled as a risk. Even if they can't prove you are guilty, the absolute nightmare of going through the due process of law and being tagged as a risk is something to think about and take it seriously. The concern must not be if the app is based on what country, it must be why does this app want to know so much about me, or why does the govt need to know my every opinion. US trusted Dick Cheney's words and we all know what happened.