Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded

• semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Listen, I’m extremely anti-trump but the guy has a point. Evil things can be evil regardless of who is in charge, but we only seem to care when the narrative shifts in certain directions. Why didn’t we care about this back then?

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  • octopus_ink@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I haven’t used a Microsoft product in my personal life in twenty years. One of the primary reasons for that is that I don’t trust them with my privacy. People (gestures broadly at the tech space) have been expressing similar sentiment for decades.

    We are not a monolith, and some people have cared about these things while others have not.

    For those who only just began caring, I find it entirely reasonable that when the top of the pyramid wasn’t Trump, someone who there are a great many reasons to distrust, they weren’t as worried about it.

    If you didn’t care about it until recently, only you can answer the question you have asked.

    All of which is far more of an answer than the sheer whataboutism merited.

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    • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh I most certainly cared back then, just felt like nobody wanted to listen to me. Full Linux, grapheneos stack with no google play services, no Microsoft, nearly free of google (replacing gmail is going to be a monumental task, but it’s my last one).

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      • octopus_ink@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I think my point is kinda that the whataboutism poster I blocked might have needed a reminder that the idea that “no one cared until it was Trump” is just another pro-Trump attempt to rewrite history, and untrue on the face of it, because it has never been difficult in the age of MS dominance to find knowledgeable people expressing these concerns.

        However, and going back to my original comment and my underlying frustration that I’ve entertained this whataboutism for this long, like all examples of whataboutism it’s nothing but a waste of time where we all circlejerk about how of course we all cared about it even before Trump while simultaneously failing to call out the original statement of “no one cared about Trump” as the obvious bullshit that it is, on top of being whataboutism.

        So now I get to walk away smugly congratulating myself for how thoroughly I’ve explosed the whataboutism, meanwhile all the time you and I spent thinking about and typing this could have been spent thinking up creative methods of civil disobedience, or otherwise doing something more valuable than impotently demonstrating what an inane point was made in the first place.

        So next time, I’m just stopping at Goodbye, and the downvoters can fuck themselves.

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