• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Yup. It’s unfortunate. I want to visit the US but it had become one of the countries I would not visit alongside China because of Orwellian surveillance.

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      7 days ago

      The surveillance in USA isn’t remotely like China. Having spent time in both places.

      And there’s no law or actual requirement to turn over your social media history, this was some shit that Trump said, not a new law or bill.

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          7 days ago

          I mean, we have cameras this big now --> o

          We also have AI systems for parsing vast amounts of data and predicting human behavior, we have giant, international corporations using all of this tech. Are you in the EU? Are you in Canada? Or any “developed” nation? Because this isn’t going to be a USA/China problem, this is going to be a worldwide problem as we shift globally to techno-oligarchy as a global ruling system.