• Woozythebear@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Because your government can use the information against you while a government on the other side of the planet can’t.

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        Used to be true. See countries affecting populations in foreign countries. Propaganda is not local.

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      Because definitionally, fewer people doing a bad thing is better than more people doing a bad thing?