In China, you can’t exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the future and I hate “progress”.
False.
Smartphones are not a tool to manipulate and spy on tge population. Nor are they a tool utilized by the ruling class to control the masses.
Dont assume that what happens in China will happen elsewhere.
You might appreciate the work done by purism to give us more control over our devices.
Is it their intended purpose? No. Is it absolutely a function they’re used for? Yes. It’s a phone, the government absolutely spies on you with it
The government spying on us, I think gives people the impression that doing nothing wrong means you’re in the clear. The part that is concerning is people who aren’t the government spying on us, what are the consequences for mishandling or misusing our most private info? What decisions will be made about us based on some algorithm that may or may not be fair. Not disagreeing with you just piggybacking on your comment for those that think they’re doing nothing wrong so they have nothing to worry about.
I disagree. The government that’s spying on us (at least in America) killed Fred Hampton and pressured MLK to kill himself. It’s the government that gets the wrong house when doing a no knock raid far more frequently than is reasonably acceptable. It’s the government that was kept in check by an implied right to privacy that no longer exists and now could run the risk of anal sex between consenting adults becoming illegal. This is the government that may charge you with a crime for menstruating wrong. And the corporations are selling your data to it. If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you better hope your data looks like you aren’t too.
That’s only a small part of what the data collection is for.
It is more interesting to consider what happens when people that know what you think start trying to influence how you think.
Adtech spies on you with it. The gov piggybacks on adtech.
Not just adtech. Wireless communication protocols too. The stuff Snowden leaked never stopped
Meh. Still nothing next to what CCP does in China.
Oh boy, wait until you learn about Google-Analytics on Android phones, or how they predict (or lets say know) where traffic jams are. Does the Section 702 of the USA ring a bell?
They certainly started as a good idea, but they evolved into a widely used surveillance tool for companies and governments across the world.
You barely have a clue if you think you’re informing me by mentioning 702.
Some sexy confidently incorrect material here
False.
Oh god yes baby keep it coming
yawn
Based off this line I’m pretty sure you’re trolling, Purism barely manages to ship a product in 5 years.
They had issues, but theyve been shipping phones this year and they run Linux.
We dont have to just use ios or android, and I think that’s a great thing!
Alternatively use graphene OS, or Calyx OS.
This comment has big Dwight Shrute vibes. What is the best bear?
Was it the “false” part? Because DUH.
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Do you feel responding to tone represents something meaningful?
Good bit m8.