• centof@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Ah yes let’s try to stifle Chinese innovation by … checks notes … expanding our surveillance state. Usually we are the ones calling China a surveillance state, but it’s fine(it’s not) once we do it.

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      14 hours ago

      You joke, but western governments regularly pull the “our surveillance is good because we aren’t an authoritarian regime” trope.

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      Yeah. All the FUD about Huawei really solidified in my mind how stupid the average internet user is these days.

      It’s like, everything they were bitching about has already been confirmed to be happening with US companies thanks to PRISM and the Snowden leaks.