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12 hours agoYou don’t want “government surveillance”? Fine by me.
I don’t want billionaire surveillance: “OMG Facepalm!!”
People are really sweet on the internet.
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We’re already living in a dystopia where billionaires control millions of people with addictive algorithms, and they desperately want to do the same to kids to train them early. If anything, this makes it harder for kids to access the algorithm. Even if it saves 1% it’s a net positive. I don’t really care if a scrolling zombie already feeding all his data to a billionaire also gets surveilled by the government now. And what surveillance is that now? It’s just an app telling your year of birth to a social media site with your authorization.
You should refuse to use social media at all.
I’m really getting tired of this click bait title popping up daily for the last week.
For what I understand from the articles, the app doesn’t tie the login to your OS, which is a nice feature because it prevents Google or Apple from controlling where you can install the app. So it can work in opensource phones, maybe? Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Also, it looks like the hacker needs to have access to your phone. It’s the same as saying if you leave your house door open you can get robbed, so there’s no point in buying a TV because it can get stolen.
110·5 days agoThe internet as we know it is a playground for billionaires to get richer. Good riddance.
I bought a high end Samsung specifically for the 7 years update. I got tired of buying low end phones that got slow and outdated every 2-3 years. Hopefully 7 years form now there will be a better alternative.
5·11 days agoThe house always wins.
The defensive pact doesn’t even cover that area of the world.
Portuguese India was invaded in the 60’s and NATO didn’t step in.Article 6
For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:
on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America , on the Algerian Departments of France, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;
on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.
Big social isn’t profitable unless they’re tracking people. So they sure won’t stop doing that. It would be their ending.
And when the governments do act on something, people go on “muh rights” tirades online, like everyone here.
Literally acting like gun rights people when the government tries to regulate arms. And social media is a hell of a weapon right now. It would be strange to defend firearms for everyone, even for kids. People think firearms are freedom, cars are freedom, smoking in restaurants is freedom. Well, I’ve been here before social media and I know it isn’t freedom.
That being said… here, have an upvote because I agree with you.