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Do we have a chance? (szmer.info)

submitted 1 week ago by cottonbk@szmer.info to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Negative thoughts flooded my mind. The EU is constantly trying to push Chat Control. They're blocking bootloaders on phones, introducing ID and face scanning everywhere, in the US they're trying to push system-level verification, corporations are spitting in our faces and don't even hide it. I know we have to fight. My personal rebellion was joining Fediverse and Lemmy and quitting Reddit. But seriously, boss—I'm tired. Are our attempts to preserve internet freedom futile? Can we win against corporations and politicians who we pay but don't listen to us?

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[–] helix@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why do you think the global south will be unaffected by fascism? If there is a rise of surveillance capitalism and fascism they'll try to suppress foreign people with other viewpoints.

[–] cottonbk@szmer.info 3 points 1 week ago

Brazil is part of the global south, and together with the US, they are pushing age verification at the systemic level, just to mention

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

im not saying that it won't but op is talking about this issue and referencing imperialist countries for hope, they created this, why do you think the hope would be there? i don't understand what's the privacy community obssession over ewwrope at all, all of those countries are part of the 3/5/8/16/32 eyes. they are the ones pushing age verification even if some other countries also apply it.

[–] helix@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Which countries have better privacy protection rights than Europe? The fact is that the shift to surveillance capitalism is basically world wide, but in Europe at least there's some legal way to push back. In the US the highest courts are broken, in Germany the Bundesverfassungsgericht often stops legislators from making surveillance capitalism worse.