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WhackyIdeas ◴[] No.40716143[source]
PGP encryption should be taught in school. Ingrained.

Data privacy used to be trampled on with the fear of ‘terrorism’, but the Americans blasted the airwaves with the word so much that it diluted the word to the point it instills zero fear.

Now the new words of the times to trample on privacy is CSAM.

And like utter fools, the public fall for the same crap time and time and time again.

The truth is, the world will always be shit and have shit people in it. Those shit people will do shit things.

It’s a fight over your soul now. And the AI is going to love love love everything it has on every single person on the planet. I can’t wait for the AI to come for us all - we are collectively just awful (and I believe we the west are probably more awful to humanity than even the Chinese, Israel or the Russians, and that is saying something).

I am mad.

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ironSkillet ◴[] No.40716174[source]
Please give examples of how the authoritarian, repressive, conformity-demanding CCP is less awful and soul destroying than Western democracy, as flawed as it is.
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cherryteastain ◴[] No.40716332[source]
Want to check how many died in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria between 2001 and now as a direct consequence of Western military action, versus how many people the PLA killed in foreign interventions in the same period?

Hint: the former - hundreds of thousands, the latter - zero

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1. WhackyIdeas ◴[] No.40716434[source]
And indirect, through the use of manufactured ‘uprisings’ which the West are great at.

But really, you can go back many more decades than that. Innocent lives are not something the West (especially USA) have historically valued.

I hate bashing the West all the time, but come on, we aren’t the good guys in the world. And it’s time we own up to who we are. I have ffs. And I do wonder if the world would have been a more peaceful place if we collectively had more soul.