• @[email protected]
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    1614 days ago

    This is on a different level than anything Snowden released.

    Snowden released the fact that the major internet companies in the US literally have full time CIA staff and locked rooms with servers

    Why is this on a different level? Is it because they’re ASIANS?

    • @finitebanjo
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      1414 days ago

      That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

      In the PRC it’s only illegal to talk about it.

      • Bilb!
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        914 days ago

        That Snowden releasing the facts and it being brought up in courts, state congress, and federal congress as well as national news all revolved around it being illegal in the USA.

        Did it stop?

        • @finitebanjo
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          514 days ago

          The specific program Snowden revealed supposedly ended in 2015, it collected information such as who was calling who and for how long. The 9th Circuit actually ruled it clearly illegal in 2020 and Snowden made a Tweet about it in a relatively good mood.

        • @[email protected]
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          014 days ago

          Did you ignore the part where it’s not illegal to talk about?

          Yeah, the US is fucked, and there are some decent comparisons to China… But government control and oversight of business isn’t one of them.

          In fact, it’s something that’s severely lacking in the US. We have the complete opposite problem.

    • @[email protected]
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      1014 days ago

      The long and short of it is even leftie Americans have internalised American exceptionalism, even if they aren’t cognisant of it. And the right are, well… Racist and don’t want to admit it.

    • @Dead_or_Alive
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      714 days ago

      One government is actively committing genocide against subsets of their population I’d say it’s a pretty big fucking difference.