• Count Regal Inkwell
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    7 hours ago

    Blah blah blah “we built our own great firewall and painted it red white and blue, and even banned the use of vpns to get to foreign sites which even China doesn’t do. We’re totally the good guys BTW.”

    Americans are so fucking stupid, oh my god.

    • FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      as an American yeah, seeing this post is just depressing. like people are actively cheering a loss of internet freedom. the government doesn’t care about bytedance or else capcut would have to go too. they care about controlling information, tiktok has been essential in issues like Palestine, even if I don’t like the platform itself I can admit that.

      • spireghost@lemmy.zip
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        2 hours ago

        Also 100% clear that facebook, google, twitter… are all doing the same but for US intelligence

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      2 hours ago

      “Freedom is when you let foreign governments spy on your citizens”

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      4 hours ago

      banned the use of vpns to get to foreign sites which even China doesn’t do

      What are you talking about? The GFC tries its absolute best to block VPNs and other circumvention methods.

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      7 hours ago

      What do you suggest? Allow a foreign nation to destroy you from within?

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        6 hours ago

        Actually fight against that rather than pretending too, Israel and Russia have destroyed the US from within far more than China… Maybe tackle the active objective threats rather than potential ones