I wonder how many examples of corporations making life miserable for normal people need to be made public before enough people realize we are in deep shit to start protesting.
Crony capitalism decays everything it touches for the sole purpose of shunting the lion’s share of our nation’s wealth into the pockets of the already obscenely rich.
Your argument about the downsides of tiktok (attention span and laziness) applies to anything
Lol no, Bytedance hired a whole think tank of psychologists to create a second filter standard for non-Chinese users that is differently curated from their Chinese user set. I’m not even wasting the time to detail it more because it has been in the news for years now
And I’ve found that facts have been largely irrelevant in nearly every level of social discourse for the last 15 years.
Especially when it comes to government.
I know it’s comforting to believe that isn’t the case, that humanity is at base level rational and reasonable.
Unfortunately this is a lie. The significant majority of humanity only follow rationality as far as it will help them achieve their goals.
I cannot even count any more how often I have been objectively, factually right and was dismissed for not saying it in a way that they would like, which is abandoning factual accuracy to preserve certain comfortable illusions.
So I’ve largely given up on wasting my time and effort to bring objective facts to people on the internet and in my government.
I find that the best way to change things for the better is to get out in the streets and shout a lot.
If people feel that this should be illegal they should write their representatives
Waste of time and paper and you know that. Our representatives that would support us in this, and not just reply with a form letter, already know and push the issues but they are a minority in congress.
If fireworks become illegal on July 5th I can’t be found guilty for shooting them off on July 4th.
I’m more concerned with making sure it doesn’t happen in the future. If that means everyone being shitbags in the past get a free pass, maybe that’s worth it.
The headline implies the NSA broke a law that does not exist,
It sure would be nice if the PATRIOT act hadn’t fucked everyone’s opinion on privacy.
then maybe you should limit your ‘chilling effect’ replies as to not damp down the fervor for change that is starting to develop in response to government overreach.
Arguing that it isn’t unconstitutional isn’t productive if you want to see it changed.
You don’t have to be a Devil’s Advocate for bad government policy.
TOR was originally a DARPA project and everyone seems to forget this.
I mean, it’s caught a ton of pedos so I can’t really be angry but anyone who thought a DARPA project wasn’t going to be massively salted with 3 letter agency tracking servers are just plain naive.
Hell I wouldn’t be surprised if a ton of those bitcoin doublers weren’t NSA agents making some sidecash.
They are the party of hypocrisy and bigotry, it’s that simple.
Everything they claim they are, they do the opposite of.
Everything they rail against, they do in private with practiced ease.
The fact that they have the power they do proves that humanity in general is not rational or logical and we really need to stop pretending that everyone is.