• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    We can agree that there is at least a slight difference in having your own (or a friendly nation’s) Government tracking you, versus allowing a competing nation to have direct access to over half of the adult US population (as per their recent push-notification stunt), as well as a robust collection of their interests and preferences.

    There is a reason China has banned most US-based software in the mainland (Meta, Google, etc.); in favour of self-developed alternatives. This is just treatment in kind; it’s not an outright ban, rather a forced sale to prevent more of that user data falling into dubious hands.

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      8 months ago

      I’m not really ok with that type of anti other country behavior in (edit to add the word: almost) any case. Heck, I want cheap Chinese EV options in the US too.

      Make government (and other) tracking opt-out-able by law. That is the law we need. Not this bs version.

      This current bill literally sounds like it’s written by American companies to squash a foreign competition. You know Facebook, YouTube, etc. are biting at the teeth for more users (and ad revenue) of short form content; especially if TikTok users scattered to other platforms.

      Once again: give users the freedom to chose what they want. This is a government overreach.

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      8 months ago

      There is a reason China has banned most US-based software in the mainland

      I’m not at all saying what the USA is doing is right, but I find it hilarious Beijing is upset about it.

      “It’s only OK when we do it!!!”

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      8 months ago

      Yes, there is a difference. Having your own government spy on you is way worse because it has the monopoly on violence over you. No one protects you from that. But your government will (try to) protect you from foreign influences.

      There is a reason for the outrage when PRISM came out of the closet.

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        8 months ago

        because it has the monopoly on violence over you

        I’ve been hearing this one going for a while, where does it come from? Sounds like a corpofascist slogan.

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          8 months ago

          Probably a bad translation from German. Maybe a better translation would be “force” instead of “violence”. It means only the police is allowed to use force.

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            8 months ago

            Still can’t understand the point of it. Like, is the state ordering that civilians must be defenseless in the face of crime, for example? But yeah in general it just sounds like the usual “I am the Senate” fascist kind of takeover and control of power.

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              8 months ago

              It means pretty much that, I would say. The reasoning is that in the case of a conflict you have to solve it by involving police and advocacies ( I think this is the right word ). The senate is only involved in setting the ground rules for the conflict in front of a judge.

              Of course, there is stuff like self defense (so one is not completely defenseless), but anything like revenge is heavily pursued.