WotheJul 25, 2023

Do you know what is an 'Everything App'?

https://lemmy.world/post/2134032

Do you know what is an 'Everything App'? - Lemmy.world

Elon is always obsessed with WeChat’s model. (For those who don’t know about WeChat, it is basically the name of the ‘Everything app’.) Everything in one single point is pretty convenient but has led to a bunch of risks… Leave a risk that you know in the comment.

Show thread001100 010010Jul 25, 2023
Wechat is so creepy. I mean you could just get caught in some misunderstanding and get cut off from basically all communications. I mean, all it takes is one bad hack and now criminals have the data of 1 Billion people.
Show threadmarkrJul 25, 2023
Well perhaps it is creepy but in China it is massively convenient. Nobody uses cash or credit cards except foreigners. Everyone connects socially through it. Yes the authoritarian government is collecting data, how that is creepier than our distributed techno-authoritarian data collection is an ideological mystification.
Show threadbionicjoeyJul 25, 2023

Yes the authoritarian government is collecting data, how that is creepier than our distributed techno-authoritarian data collection is an ideological mystification.

Because one of those will put you in jail and have you executed and the other one just tries to sell you stuff

Show threadShialacJul 25, 2023
The incarceration rate is 4-5x as high in the US as in china
Show threadSSUPIIJul 25, 2023
People count the reasons for these incarcerations.
Show threadNXTR

According to Bureau of Prisons the majority of those incarcerated are there due to drug offenses:

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp

BOP Statistics: Inmate Offenses

Jul 25, 2023 at 4:41pmWeb
Show threadSSUPIIJul 26, 2023
Yeah. Not because of dissent, unlike how the comments of the user I replied to tried to imply
Show threadNXTRJul 26, 2023
Famously the Untied States has never had a single political prisoner.
Show threadSSUPIIJul 26, 2023
Well there is a chance that is going to change.
Show threadohlaphJul 26, 2023
Imagine how empty the slave chambers would be with proper drug acheduling in the U.S.