Kevin CollierFor the people who have advocated fruitlessly for years for the US to have any substantial data privacy law, it has to feel like gaslighting to see the country's national security apparatus finally focus on what TikTok collects and then conclude the answer is to ban that one app.
Zack Whittaker@kevincollier it continues to baffle and bewilder me that, as someone not from here, why the U.S. is the only (ostensibly) functional democracy that doesn't have a data protection or privacy law, where everyone else has one? if America is best at one thing, it's creating a permissive environment that allows corporations to sell and share our data at the expense of our privacy and security and face no repercussions when it inevitably goes to shit. case in point, the past ten years.
indyradio@zackwhittaker @kevincollier Oracle is a CIA creation, and also the leading broker of your stolen data. Why isn't the lawsuit against them in the news? You both know full well. Domestic ops. No democracy.
creek@zackwhittaker I suggest reading "Goliath" by Matt Stoller, but the short answer might be "because neoliberalism"?
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"Nurture-boy" Ric Flair@zackwhittaker
It's because the hugely important US tech industry is built entirely on abusing privacy.
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It's because the hugely important US tech industry is built entirely on abusing privacy.
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Bynkii@zackwhittaker @kevincollier @briankrebs welcome to the land of prosperity gospel, founded on the idea that the rich are blessed by the Lord himself, so the rich are a benighted class, therefore their endeavors are innately pure and good.
After all, the only ones harmed are the poor, who are only poor because they are hated by god. Otherwise they would be rich.
Once you understand how foundational that is to the US, literally everything about this country makes terrible sense.
Alun Jones@zackwhittaker @kevincollier democracy: one person, one vote. US democracy: one lobbyist, one vote.
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Marty@zackwhittaker @kevincollier In the U.S., there is one unwritten right that supersedes nearly all others: the right to get ripped off.
It gets smuggled into arguments about government overreach, but when people argue against regulations and consumer protections, all they are doing is making sure that our right to get ripped off (by those who already have much greater means) remains intact.
Mike Parsons@zackwhittaker @kevincollier the common theme is a government that allows big businesses to operate without having to account for their externalities. See also: fossil fuel companies and climate change, chemical companies and PCBs, socia media companies and white nationalism, etc.