• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    So when do they plan to do something about those domestic businesses trying to manipulate citizens of America?

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      Capitalism abusing citizens? Just fine.

      “Communism” abusing citizens? Avengers, assemble!

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        They’re prospective communists. Supposedly they’re going to get there by 2050, but they just built a new massive luxury tower for their ultra wealthy so…

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          It’s just like Marx said: “If you do an oppressive oligarchy for 100 years, it magically transforms into communism”

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            If that were true then the United States would have been communist by now

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        I think they’re more worried that it’s a foreign corporation going after their citizens and not a domestic corporation.

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      I mean, the domestic businesses are the ones who own Congress and are using it to get rid of a competitor.

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        After the thousands of years of human history I’ve read about, getting rid of competitors seems to have been the primary concern of most of the ruling classes all over the world. Way back to Ur.

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      While you’re not wrong about double standards, anything that discourages the use of vapid social media platforms is a win in my book. Use whatever backwards logic you like to make it happen so long as it’s effective.

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          Lemmy is a message board, not social media. Like fark or something awful. You have no idea who the duck i am. How is that social?

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            Users create and/or share content, check. Users discuss content, check.

            Unless you think something is missing from that definition, Lemmy is social media. It is pseudonymous, but it is still social because of the users.

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              Since when did that define social media? That’s the same thing as IRC. is IRC social media?

              ICQ had message boards where people would chat about the news. Was that social media?

              Again, fark is a place where people share content and discuss the news. Is that social media?

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            It is social media, just because your talking anonymously doesn’t mean you aren’t interacting socially. Jesus Christ your talking to people. Right now. Your being social media’d. Stop acting like your above it.

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              No it isn’t.

              When you download the app you let them have the following information/data about you:

              Purchases, location, contacts, search history, identifiers (!!), diagnostics, financial info, contact info, user content, browsing history, and usage data.

              Please tell us how any of that is “anonymous”.

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                Cool dude, you’ve identified that big corporations data farm.

                Random bloke user with a vendetta still doesn’t know who I am, and that’s who I’m more worried about on the personal scale.

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                Undoubtedly, especially since I haven’t taken particular steps to obfuscate my identity here.

                But as I said in a comment below, I’m more worried about some unhinged nutbag online randomly targeting me than being a person of interest by any nefarious groups or organizations.

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            Bruh.

            forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

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      As soon as the foreign businesses get better at harvesting data than the domestic ones, of course.