No, but they can manipulate the public’s perception of political reality to the point that someone gets elected who will bust your door down and kill you, because a bunch of people who don’t have time to make figuring out the news into a part-time job decided that that person would be able to make eggs cheaper and the other guy’s son was really into hookers or something, and also he was old and wasn’t “fixing the border.”
Just as a random example.
(To be clear, I don’t have any reason to think specifically that TikTok or China was involved in getting Trump elected. I’m just saying that allowing any adversary, whether that’s China or that’s the GOP’s social media psyop department, to have control over American’s social media landscape, will absolutely have an impact on you personally, and already has.)
Okay but now we aren’t really talking about privacy anymore, are we? We’re talking about the monopolization of social media by a few corporations as we’re siloed into platforms. Bad, for sure, but a different problem.
The election interference is coming from inside the house and privacy is only tangentially related to a larger problem.
I’ll continue to be more worried that my DMs will be used to put me in prison.
Well, only one of those governments can actually do anything to me. Hint: it’s the one I live under
You think other governments can’t reach you? Did you miss the whole “election interference” thing? Have you never heard of propaganda?
Okay, but they can’t literally bust down my door and kill me.
No, not legally anyway.
China is not illegally busting down US residents’ doors and killing them lol
Damn, lemme tell the see see pee Jimmy Bob in Missisota caught on. Time to call off the wushu assassins.
Get the fuck over yourselves lmao
No, but they can manipulate the public’s perception of political reality to the point that someone gets elected who will bust your door down and kill you, because a bunch of people who don’t have time to make figuring out the news into a part-time job decided that that person would be able to make eggs cheaper and the other guy’s son was really into hookers or something, and also he was old and wasn’t “fixing the border.”
Just as a random example.
(To be clear, I don’t have any reason to think specifically that TikTok or China was involved in getting Trump elected. I’m just saying that allowing any adversary, whether that’s China or that’s the GOP’s social media psyop department, to have control over American’s social media landscape, will absolutely have an impact on you personally, and already has.)
Okay but now we aren’t really talking about privacy anymore, are we? We’re talking about the monopolization of social media by a few corporations as we’re siloed into platforms. Bad, for sure, but a different problem.
The election interference is coming from inside the house and privacy is only tangentially related to a larger problem.
I’ll continue to be more worried that my DMs will be used to put me in prison.