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[–] 220 points 6 months ago (12 children)

It's kind of sad. He sacrificed his freedom to let us know about surveillance of the citizenry and we shrugged a little and accepted all the surveillance they could throw at us.

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  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    People dont care about their privacy one bit. They want their tiktok brain rot.

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  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    This is such a "phones bad" comment, but holy shit is it true. If you tell people why you don't have WhatsApp and instagram or whatnot, they just look at you like you are the idiot. Yeah they are evil, steal and sell my data and rot my brain but have you seen this bot posting ai videos of cats?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Yeah people are amazed I dont use those apps. I am amazed they're dumb enough to use them 😅

    Phones have decreased tech literacy a massive amount unfortunately. As they were designed to. Dumb people dont know they're being taken advantage of and corporations and oligarchies love that.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You realize how ironic this comment is on Lemmy, right?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Were trying to be better, the internet is about communication. Instead of eating processed soilent slop on major platforms, were sitting here on our gluten-free unpasturized Reddit.

    Have you ever met a health nut not evangilize about their one trick to a healthy colon? Because thats what we are. Digital health-nuts!

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  • [+] -17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    There was one program that "spied" on Americans in his whole dump, and it was shut down after, so the opposite of what you said happened. (It collected all phone pen register data in the U.S.)

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    lmao. so blissful to think the government is not spying on its own citizens. especially after DOGE went through and collected all the data on american citizens to pipe into Palantir’s surveillance pipeline. what does it feel like to be blissfully ignorant?

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago*

    Melsaskca said we shrugged and accepted the surveillance. The opposite happened. There was a single program that could be interpreted as domestic surveillance that Snowden leaked, and Americans shut it down.

    There is no evidence that DOGE fed data that they had access to into Palantir. Palantir would charge the government to do that.

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