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God, Lemmings are such a bunch of fucking hypocrites. Loudly advocating for privacy and huge, faceless, multibillion-dollar corporations not being able to sell personal information to governments out one side of their ass, all while upvoting bullshit like this to high heaven and sucking off government surveillance in the comments out the other.
News flash: giving governments access to megacorps' personal data doesn't mean they'll only use that data in the tiny number of ways that you agree with, or only against the people you don't like!
Edit for context: the other top comment was getting hammered with downvotes when I posted this.
Many - myself included - will upvote messed up or unpleasant or concerning stuff because we feel it should be discussed, and discussion tends to correlate with visibility.
Upvote != agree in a ton of cases. Reddit worked (works? Haven’t been on in a few years actually) the same way.
Thanks, this is an excellent point that my comment doesn't account for.
Selection bias is relevant here. Some people care about X, some about Y. The intersection might be hypocrites, but your argument seems to imply they are the same group.
Ngl they probably are though. I think there are other ways to prevent school shootings then making companies give private information to the government.
But since OpenAI is already stealing your data, they definitely arne't using it for good.
Different people, but yeah lemmy is getting kinda authoritarian lately. I've been tagging probable trolls and neonazis for a long time, but maybe I'll tag general political stances just to look at who is who.
Yeah, I agree. I don't want corporations giving my info to my government for any reason. Imagine the huge waste of resources and violations for false positives. And if they did hit a positive correctly, are they going to apprehend them for thought crimes?
Respect for unselecting your own upvote - Lemmy hardcore mode.
Haha. Yeah that was unintentional. Just had a quick moment while waiting.