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What would banning 1 single app do when all of them do the same shit? How does it help anyone to be spied by 1 less app?
by guappa 1y ago
What would banning 1 single app do when all of them do the same shit? How does it help anyone to be spied by 1 less app?
- mrguyorama 1y agoIf Americans are not ideologically opposed to being spied upon by corporations, there is no disconnect here. Americans have strongly signaled, through politics and actions, that they do not give a fuck about their privacy or information security, and ask any voter and they'll repeat some bullshit about "I don't care" or "nothing to hide". But Americans do not want to be spied upon by a literal adversarial government which sets up police stations in other countries. I don't want to be spied upon by my country, but currently Republicans want to use the force of the federal government to police and punish wrongthink, and Obama was a true believer in the US spy state, so they didn't exactly try to remove it. It's hard to get America to undo a policy that was sold as "Kill the terrorists in our country" when those same voters have, 20 years later, enthusiastically supported another round of "kill the brown and muslims because they are terrorists" and want to deport people for tweets.
- frollogaston 1y agoThe popularity of TikTok in the US suggests Americans don't care about the adversarial govt spying either.
- stevenAthompson 1y ago> What would banning 1 single app do when all of them do the same shit? That feels like a facetious question. You may as well also ask, "Why we bother arresting the worst murderers when there will still be other murderers?"