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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.
Tech oligarchs are funding this shit MAN!
Yeah, stop giving them any more money immediately. That’s the only message they’ll understand.
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
If everyone who asks this question joins us we’ll be more than enough!
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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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.
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.
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.
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You definitely can’t feel safe using Lemmy either
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There is if you are rich enough.
If we’re going to live in a privacy-less world, it needs to be for everyone
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The world’s future is in a really frightening place right now. It looks like, with the US advocating for a world controlled by US, China, and Russia, that “they”* are literally trying to make 1984 happen with forever wars between colluding enemies and everything else that dystopia brings.
I agree, Epstein was a … not a pawn. Maybe a bishop.
*In this case we know some of who “they” are. Like the Heritage Foundation.
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If you have your own instance you have access to user comment and post history (even if deleted), voting history, IP address, and more for every other instance you’re federated with.
Lemmy is by no means privacy focused.
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Do you really think you can’t export data from your own instance?
And why are you making the assumption that an instance is being seized by law enforcement? They almost certainly have their own instances just for data collection.
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The only way Lemmy works is by sharing all of that data with all of the other federated instances. With your own instance you can choose whether or not to ingest all of that data.
And the point is that you wouldn’t know whether an instance is owned by the feds. There doesn’t even have to be any activity on the instance. Literally anyone can do this at any time and no one would know.
And how exactly is that working in everyone’s safe interest?
What a farce.
