Is your argument that Chinese government is not using technology to restrict freedoms?

How is that being upvoted

I would say that decades of western Hollywood has primed the population to mistrust any new technology and only see potential dystopian ends in exchange for entertainment. Combined with China spreading propaganda to encourage those views in western nations. Sites like lemmy and Facebook are heavily used as generators to spread mistrust.

Right but so are people. This was all inevitable from the start. Much worse stuff is coming. People should have been embracing methods to avoid this stuff decades ago. I’m not just talking about using a fucking ad blocker. There needed to be measures to fuck with data collection. Become hostile to any site’s or content creators looking to sell viewers anything. Run applications that could feed junk data back to sites.

Had people started earlier they wouldn’t be facing the giant industry that grew out of a digital spaces that welcomed the things that eventually grew into this data collection beast we all knew were coming.

Yea it’s unfortunate the Republicans are in power. They would have done something about this.

Any new technology instantly gets turned into some new boogeyman instead of being embraced. Works out great for China when western people become luddite at a very critical window of opportunity from emerging technology. You’d almost think China has a strong ability to flood western sites with propaganda.

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Why do you write this like it’s surprising. I’m so sick of the left acting like “WHY DID THEY BEAT US UP ARE YOU NOT SHOCKED LOOK AT ME I’M DISGUSTING”

How about figuring out a way to protest that doesn’t let them make these arrests so easy. The right figured out you can drive massive trucks into the streets to overwhelm the city’s ability to arrest people. If you mass arrest people they leave behind lots of vehicles and there’s only so many trucks that can remove them and only so much space in impound lots and this creates a situation that fucks the police over. The left on the other hand dresses in penis costumes and stands around until a cop kicks their head in. What the fuck are we doing

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