3 ms·
Do you think if the Stasi, or someone like them, ever come into power, they'll just ignore all this extra surveillance we've built for free? Not really a hypot
by like_any_other 6mo ago
Do you think if the Stasi, or someone like them, ever come into power, they'll just ignore all this extra surveillance we've built for free?
Not really a hypothetical - look at China and Russia, or Saudi Arabia [1]. I'll let others make the case to add the US and European countries to that list - not because I don't believe they belong on the list, but just because I'm too lazy to meet the higher bar of evidence that goes with going against groupthink.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_infiltration_of_Twitter#Known_victims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_infiltration_of_Twitter#...
- ymolodtsov 6mo agoI know exactly what happens to Russia and all of it has nothing to do with targeted ads or anything. Putin's cronies literally own the country's only remaining unblocked social network. They tend to prosecute people for public content, even comments or likes, but there's not a single case where ad targeting data was used. And they have the capacity to locate a person through multiple other ways, primarily cell networks.