So many people still think its ok for them to do📱

Pro tip: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit which has been defending your right to privacy for many years. If you shop on Amazon, you can give a portion of the purchase price to EFF. You pay the same amount and daddy bezos gets a few less dollars. Use the affiliate link, not the smile link as smile has been sunsetted: https://www.eff.org/node/58741

Propro tip: Don’t buy from evilcorp and donate those savings directly to the EFF
- Agreed. Some people have to shop there for whatever reason. If that's you, the link is good to use :).
- If I'm on Amazon it's for something that I need and can't get locally. There are no saving to donate. I'll probably have to spend a lot more, drive multiple hours, or both if I don't shop on Amazon. That's the only reason I ever use it.
Amazon Smile is discontinued fyi
There’s so much irony in this comment it cured my anemia

Anything and everything that politicians propose to protect children, I am automatically against. It doesn't matter how good it sounds, if they say anything about protecting children, I'm opposed to it.

This is because they know that 'protect children' are magic words that let them get away with almost anything, and that's genuinely about the only time they say that anyway. Basically nothing the government does is actually to protect children.

We had a recreational marijuana referendum in my state and the opposition signs said, "Save the Children." From what? I have no idea. Unsurprisingly, the vote failed.

Of course, it really helped that the state legislature sued to halt the referendum on grounds of improper procedure which caused the referendum to be put on the ballot as a special election instead of the mid-terms ballot. The judge dismissed the lawsuit, by the way.

The shit some people will do to stop other people from having a good time.
God, that's totally depressing, and I totally agree with you.

US keeps taking the flame while EU, Bastion of Rights™, just outright banning encryption.

Different departments. It's the 'keep the plebs in line department' that wants to scan your devices.
Where as the 'keep the rich giving us money department' are not actioning the rapist list

Wish I could add a /s to this.

They're the same department.
- Why would they be? To save taxpayers' money?

Government:

Star Wars "Of course I know him, he is me."

Maybe if 30% of the population weren't trying to re-elect one of those people for president it would be easier.

It's so adorable how many Americans think that the oligarchs they support are different.
- LMAO imagine being an apologist for pedophilia and human trafficking and then judging others.

What the hell would stop the government from just putting CSAM onto the phones of political rivals and upstarts to get them jailed without question?

And child molesters will run away scot-free on account of all this.

Isn't there anyone who will stop the dirty child molesters without wanting power in return? Anyone?

Anyone who will stop the government?

Anybody?

Mfw the laws the gov said would be used to catch pedos are actually used on enviromental activists and union organisers.

transitive conclusion: all activists and organizers are pedos (and also step on kittens)
If we just elect union organizers and environmental activists to government, along with overrepresentation for minorities and a good balanced list of represented groups total, then there won't be a problem will there?
- To answer that question first we must understand why environmental activists and union organisers are targetted in the first place. Businesses make money polluting, clearing land etc. They also save money exploiting workers through poor workplace safety, terrible working conditions, low pay etc. It would be an impedance to capital to allow such individual in government to pass laws limiting profits.
  
  In our liberal democractic world, money wins, no matter what the will of the people is or what the long term outcomes are, the owning class wins every time. It's not as if people haven't tried voting for the right person in the past. In many countries there already exist Labour parties established by workers unions. Despite this, business interests always win. Sometimes they throw a few crumbs at the plebs to appease them but it's always big business that dominates.
  
  Another example, remember Barack Obama's election campaign in 2008? Change we can believe in? Then he enters the presidency and bails the banks out during the GFC and continued the war in Iraq. Coca cola hired paramilitaries to kill union organisers in Colombia. Biden campaigned on climate change action and then approved new gas piplines. I can go on and on.
  
  Answering your question is very hard to do in a short reply. There are many books written about the topic. I recommend the following video: https://youtu.be/fcImfx8tunI?si=FfAJzdCq2qFX2RlI
  
  Also, search the text "vote harder" in lemmygrad, it's a meme to mock liberals.

Or Maxwell's client list...

I'm out of the loop, what's this?
- The gal that recruited and ran girls under Epstein's racket had a book of clients that turned up in evidence, and naturally the government isn't going after a single one of them because they're "special" aka rich and powerful

Are they also going to pay me to use their spy products? I'll just stop using electronic devices period and get into crafting. These fucking oligarchs are just so sure that we can't possibly live without plugging ourselves into their mass surveillance that when they flip the switch everyone will just say "oh well it was fun while it lasted, guess ill go along with it the new reality"

You won't though
- Like fucking hell I won't. I already use a dumb phone for years now.

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