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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, nvm, I guess I didn't understand that we were fearmongering about the evil chinese technology brainwashing our youths with their wiles in this comments section.

Did something about Lemmy make you think we avoid the truth here?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This shit is Vine. We had this same social media platform in 2013, basically. Everyone's just freaking out about it now because it's owned by china, and everyone's been made to worry about threats to national security, even though we can all kind of agree that the american government also sucks and is heinous. It's giving me some "Only I can bully my little brother!" kinds of vibes. It's like the same shit as when europeans get brought up, at any point, anywhere, and then americans start making fun of british people having bad teeth and knife crime and stuff, even though they have basically all of that but worse. Nobody's a nationalist until another country gets brought up, and then suddenly everyone's the most patriotic proud to be an american motherfucker. It's cringe. It reminds me of when we started calling them "freedom fries".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Yeah I've heard all this before. Basically you're advocating for people to opt into spying because their own government does it. No thanks