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[–] MisterMoo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I mean let’s be honest, that’s slightly better than US companies plus the Chinese Communist Party being able to do so.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about you, but if I must leak my private data like a sieve to use the internet, I'd much rather that data go to a government that isn't governing me!

[–] Schorsch@feddit.de -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A government that isn't governing you ... yet and that has no ambitions (/s) to take over as much power as possible in the country you live in, you mean?

[–] Tak@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ahh yes, I should be worried about how they could in the future, do something while my current government can make me a fucking slave, legally if they decide to.

[–] Schorsch@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Look, I don't know which country you live in but if you're worried it might make you a slave, you should riot (if at all possible, that is). Be part of the opposition.

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn I thought private prisons were a loophole and not in the constitution to punish people with slave labor.

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Since the days the first settlers landed here, the backbone of the US economy has been forced labor. It's only natural that we would enshrine it in our constitution.

[–] Schorsch@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So what...?
Not everybody is living in the "default country" and also, with the US we see how well it all works for them and how slavery is not a thing there at all.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

"So what?" Unbelievable. You get told Amerika is still a nation of chattel slavery and all you can say about it is 'so what'? That's my community, my people they're bundling off into modern-day slavery, day by day by fucking day where they're not chalking us out on the fuckin asphalt, and all you can say is 'so what'.

I hope your mf country collapses. Return to the fuckin dirt with you.

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wow, you said you didn't know which country had legalized slavery, and I answered and you turned into an obstinate asshole for some reason. What a weird way to behave!

E: ah, wait, German. That makes sense.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

negl current-day krauts might be as bad as yankees

[–] Marketsupreme@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

They still can, they just have to go back to buying that data lmao

[–] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Everybody Sucks Here

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

It's obviously more of a problem when a government that actually has agency over you harvests your data. If you can't even understand this, then you're truly lost.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 8 points 1 year ago

Not having the choice is slightly worse I'd say.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What can China do to you? You don't live there.

[–] UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

TikTok enacted a very obvious influence campaign to fight this legislation that resulted in congressional phone lines becoming jammed. So what China can do is directly influence our laws.