Yes, because here in the capitalist USA I am free to choose what phone and carrier I use, and what OS and software my phone have on them. The free market decided that I should have access to bootloader unlockable phones with open source OS and zero shitty Facebook apps spying on me.
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Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
does anyone really think our freedom phones are far from this?
Maybe the western world can be given some credit on being a tad more subtle, but overall the difference here are in tecnique, not goals
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tell me you are blind to privilege without telling me you are blind to privilege…
I get what you are saying but claiming that Capitalism and the Free Market got you there is laughable.
A shit ton of people in the USA do not actually have a choice in carrier and choice of phone seriously depends on how rich you are, the spread is wide!
More importantly, how many people do you think have the tech knowledge (or access to pay) to get an open source OS in their phones?
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, you captured yourself perfectly… I couldn’t have done it better
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
That’s why laws like the GDPR exist to prevent this bullshit.
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
GDPR
Does not exist in Murica
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Spectrism@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Not completely, but the Brussels effect still applies to some degree.
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did not know about that… thanks for the link
foxacid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
GDPR does not prevent foreign intelligence agencies from profiling you
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Do you have a link to what foreign intelligence agencies you mean cause than I am going to use my right to be forgotten. Cause yea that will work.
foxacid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Any SIGINT agency that deals with foreign intelligence is likely to have most of your deepest darkest secrets. The ones with most media coverage are NSA and GCHQ. Looking it up isn’t likely to yield very insightful results, other than perhaps some queer documents leaked by Snowden
Tire@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Can you provide more information on how western governments are spying?
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Its funny, a screenshot every 5 minutes that might be reviewed later on if needed sounds less intrusive than western efforts like google, amazon, etc.
Zealousideal_Fox_900@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
What kind of tankie bullshit argument is that lmao
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
A factually accurate one lol
Zink@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Eh, they didn’t exactly paint it in a good light. It’s more like not laughing too much at the ordinary NK citizen’s big brother plight while the rest of us are being monitored constantly and much more real time.
The two situations are not the same, but the parallels show his we all deal with this crap in our own ways.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tracking someone’s history through screenshots sounds like a fucking nightmare for the person doing the searching.
It’s evil, but also a PITA for the analyst.