• maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    The only valid criticism to this move I’ve seen and actually agree with is that instead of banning individual companies, the US should enact legislation that makes these practices illegal.

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      8 months ago

      NSA raises its hand

      “No we would prefer that you didn’t”

      (I mean, honestly, it’s a good point. Making a company-neutral law would be a better approach for 3 or 4 different big reasons.)

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      8 months ago

      Which would, of course, make Facebook illegal as well, and LinkedIn… and pretty much all of Alphabet.

      … and that sounds fine to me.

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      8 months ago

      yeah but then they would have to ban facebook and instagram too.

      they do all of these if you replace ‘china’ with ‘united states’

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      8 months ago

      The most baffling thing to me about that whole “data buying scandal” is that the government was PAYING for it and not just seizing it saying “yeah you’re giving us that, here’s a gag order so you cant talk about it”