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Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

  • Lukas Murch@thelemmy.club
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    5 hours ago

    It may seem like a drop in the ocean now, but if things ever got to the point where we’re being divided up into groups, you might be oddly left out of every group. It’s not hard to de-Google, de-Meta, inconvenient at times, but maybe it pays dividends down the road.

    • tburkhol@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      The trouble with living in a panopticon is that becomes suspicious to not be on a list.

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        3 hours ago

        We’re already seeing that where people are suspicious when you don’t have Facebook or whatever.