• Sturgist
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    20 hours ago

    Teen Mental Health App Sent Kid’s Data Straight to (cue red menace) TikTok

    Ahem…

    was leaking data about who visited the website to TikTok, Meta, Snap, and other social media companies

    I’m no Sinophobe, I do think there’s a point to be made about social media data harvesting and mainlining it to ANY government, and that the CCP is definitely not a government I would trust with open access to all my digital doings. That headline is patently fucking ridiculous click-bait fear mongering, there’s numerous US politicians on record saying that privacy concerns have nothing to do with their torch and pitchfork agenda re:TikTok, and the line I quoted above is in the first 1-3 paragraphs. The reality is that corporate/government owned social media has only a few uses:

    • mass collection of data for surveillance, profiling individuals for profit or
    • as the ProPublica piece on the NSSF and Cambridge Analytics VoteGun operation highlights, manipulation of people through profiling to push political agendas and tamper with elections

    I’ll edit this with a link to the article in a few minutes.

    Edit: https://www.propublica.org/article/guns-lobbying-cambridge-analytica-nssf-privacy-elections

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      19 hours ago

      Excellent analysis, the headline buries the real story.

      These corporate parasites are using contract law to override actual law and daddy Sam let’s them.

      If you don’t protect yourself, they will take you for a ride folks.

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        19 hours ago

        You feeling ok bud? This is waaaay out of character for you. I’ve not seen you not shit post…ever!

        In seriousness though. We’ve been shown what they’re doing time and again, and they’ve greased enough palms and swallowed enough spooge that they only ever get a “cost of business” slap on the wrist, and chiding tut.

        “Ah ah ah, mind we spoke about not showing the sheep what we’re doing. I’d like to go to the Bahamas next week, all inclusive, see you at the shareholders meeting in April.”

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          19 hours ago

          🐸

          Real change will happen when we hit critical mass of people understanding thats how these thing work.

          So much work to be done!

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            19 hours ago

            I think the majority knows, but can they be fucked to do anything about it?

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              18 hours ago

              can they be fucked to do anything about it?

              Historycally there is a break point but if they wait that long… We are well done frogs on president Musk’s plate.

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                18 hours ago

                Yeah, historically. We’re already close, but at what point do the rabid supporters have enough of being ground beneath the heel? And is there enough opposition that’s not apathetic to shift the balance?

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                  No idea… We all here agree we are getting fucked but there is 30-50% of the adult population who think first lady trump is fighting for them. Not much can be done until this base turns on him.

                  He is flooding the zone, which is having adverse consequences for some of them. I am sure fed workers bring harassed into resigning got to start wondering if that vote was wise.

                  But even if we get kamala today, it aitn like thats W for the plebs, just a slower fuckening.