Yea from an individualistic perspective it makes sense, but ultimately you’re supporting quasi-orwellian surveillance practices by using it. The US is far from squeaky clean but it pales in comparison.
Gonna have to give a hard disagree there. US surveillance capability is far more widespread and powerful than China’s, partly because it’s composed of so many multinational corporations, it’s not just the government working on its own. They just don’t have as bad of a reputation because the US still maintains global hegemonic economic, political, military, and cultural control.
As the US empire falls we’re gonna be seeing that power used more and more as it tries to cling to that hegemony. Heck, it’s already happening. I know that’s why some of us are here now.
Yea from an individualistic perspective it makes sense, but ultimately you’re supporting quasi-orwellian surveillance practices by using it. The US is far from squeaky clean but it pales in comparison.
Gonna have to give a hard disagree there. US surveillance capability is far more widespread and powerful than China’s, partly because it’s composed of so many multinational corporations, it’s not just the government working on its own. They just don’t have as bad of a reputation because the US still maintains global hegemonic economic, political, military, and cultural control.
As the US empire falls we’re gonna be seeing that power used more and more as it tries to cling to that hegemony. Heck, it’s already happening. I know that’s why some of us are here now.