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The big issue is Google isn’t owned by the state.
I mean... Does It change anything? They are owned by a board of directors that want profits over anything else
Of course it change, at least the authorities have to buy from companies with public money instead of getting for free.
Yes, not being owned by the world's most terrifying government turns out to be different than being owned by the world's most terrifying government. Funny how that works
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
Not sure what you mean.
It's a quote from the book Catch-22 and just popped into my head when I saw your user name. Highly recommend the book but there's a short explanation of the phrase here if you're curious.
Man, Snowden wasted his entire life to tell you USA literally spy on everything you do and when caught their answer was : yeah, so what you gonna do about it, maybe you should do the same.
Instead they are about to be their own state.
Btw, companies are absolutistic by default.
They are the state at this point. So same thing.
no they are just compelled by the state and secret courts which is totally different obviously
I love how people overlook this part. You get all the knuckledraggers who want to claim the US is somehow just as bad as China is.
The anti-American sentiment in here is obnoxious.
I've never thought that the knuckledraggers were anti-american. I think they are anti-intellectual. Using tiktok is more important to them than the future of humanity.
Some of the knuckledraggers are. I guess I should have added that a lot of the edgel0rds like to rustle some feathers by posting anti-American views.