• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That power, to spy wholesale on the American public, is the source of a massive amount of wealth and, more importantly, power.

    Our elites are never going to give it up.

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      Hey, if it makes you feel any better it’s not just the US. The middle east is full of surveillance states, and now european countries want a piece of the pie and are now trying to surveil their population as much as possible.

      It’s a depressing truth, but there’s some solidarity that our struggle is one.

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        21 hours ago

        Luckily, we have alternatives.

        There is an entire ecosystem of software that specifically rejects corporate, centralized, ownership. Self-hosting, while not for everyone, lets you largely stay away from these platforms that are being used to spy on you.