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How do you think that countries with a GDPR came to have governments concerned about that kind of thing? My option still seems better to me
By having people actively interacting with their government instead of ignoring it until it did something they didn't like and then threatening them with violence.
Your option is a collective action. Mine is individual. These are not mutually exclusive. But I cannot do a collective action on my own. I don’t have a guillotine but I can afford airfare out and I don’t need to rely on actions of others to take the individual action.
You must have a lot of confidence in democracy in the US to do right by the people. I’ll leave this quote here:
“In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.”
-- Noam Chomsky (1990)
Ew, quoting Chomsky the nonce