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      30 days ago

      Tech companies need to stop being passive

      you need to realize that US tech bros are not only complicit but actually the main drivers and sponsors of this speed run into a fascist surveillance state

      Stop using their products. Stop your subscriptions. Stop all unnecessary consumption.

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        Exactly this. Anyone who thinks that we the people would be given communication tools for free (free of cost, under our control and completely secure) from those that oppress us is sadly, sadly mistaken.

        They handed us the very thing that allows them to look deeply, deeply into our lives. Oh! And sell us shit while they do it.

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            I don’t know if enough people care to make the sacrifice. I like the idea of having hope, but I don’t have much faith left in humanity to fight against the system they’re so tied into now

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                I hope so, it’s only going to get more grim until enough people make a significant impact on all of these evil fucks. And that’s just the money, they’ll still be ideologically evil no matter how much we squeeze them.

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    I always knew this day was coming. I’ve got a long online post history, and most of it is very critical of the government, and extremely critical of Trump and MAGA. If they are targeting critics, sooner or later my name is going to come up.

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      Not on here, but same. I’ll save you a seat in the gas chamber we’ll inevitably end up in

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          Yeah, I put in 12 years and almost a million Karma on Reddit before I was permabanned in the post-Inauguration bloodbath, along with thousands of others, for a statement which I had posted numerous times without so much as a warning.

          They obviously took note of my opinions, and my willingness to express them, and decided that this was a new Trump era, and they immediately decided to grovel, and give me up, along with all the others. If they didn’t have a file on me before, they do now.

  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com
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    29 days ago

    I was watching this yesterday. She talks about the way the government pushes private companies to follow out their spying basically.

    We already gave out freedom and rights away a long time ago. Everything is just for show.

    https://youtu.be/UjHYZ3LiRQI

    Honestly I’m convinced these news stories are just for show to bend the average person’s mind to believe they don’t already have all your digital data.

    No one should feel safe using any of the top brand tech. …and sadly you can’t feel safe using the smaller companies either.

    The fact a war hasn’t started already is kind of mind blowing and really shows the American spirit of freedom is all bullshit. No one wants to admit reality they just want to continue this odd half-life escapist lifestyle that gets marketed to them by the people that use them.