All tech is used as such. You think Apple and Microsoft and Android aren’t selling your data to the government? Hmmm…
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TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt’s bit of both. I still wouldn’t trust Chinese tech. Huawei tech is involved in surveiling the African Union headquarters.. This not to minimise US’ own corruption and digital imperialism, although I think the EU is in the right step to use open source software to replace American tech.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s what I said basically. US is doing its own digital imperialism. The difference is that the US government outsourced the Orwellian surveillance to techbros.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s just a difference in government philosophy though. China owns most endeavours in its country, the USA outsources it to private enterprise and buys it back.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Amazon literally allows police and ICE access to your Ring camera and Alexa recordings at will. They don’t even have to make a request, Amazon built an app so they can have access to any of it immediately.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All tech is used as such. You think Apple and Microsoft and Android aren’t …
At least “All popular consumer tech …” then, because there are alternatives already.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I would trust China before Elon fucking Musk.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just because US is going on temper tantrum it doesn’t mean people have to forget that China is doing its own Orwellian surveillance.
artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
It’s pretty bad everywhere but people don’t realize the level of surveillance in China is on a whole other fucking level.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
An acceptable price for living under a government that actually controls its capitalist billionaires rather than being controlled by them.
And it’s not like China’s surveillance is any more Orwellian than the West’s. They just do it more openly.