• knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    2 months ago

    As opposed to a spyware app owned by the local government that’s designed to sow discord and destabilize any opposition to the local oligarchs?

    Seems to me that, for most people, there’s more personal risk in being spied on by local cops than foreign ones.

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      2 months ago

      Ah yes, that thing is bad but so is another thing so let’s not fix any of the problems

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        2 months ago

        Banning apps doesn’t fix anything either. You know as well as I do that the solution is robust privacy laws

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          2 months ago

          Like the ones in the EU that just don’t get enforced?

          Btw, banning a platform can and should be a consequence for not adhering to robust privacy laws (for example after too grave and/or repeated offenses).

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            2 months ago

            Banning apps as a consequence sure, but we know that this has everything to do with the second cold war and nothing to do with actual privacy concerns.