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If we consider this normal, it would totally be acceptable for Europe to demand a ban or sale of American spying and propaganda tools social media and streaming platforms. Either way, it would reduce the harm they could do - and in the case of a sale, they’d actually have to adhere to consumer friendly laws.
I wish we would, but on the other hand, not being a totalitarian regime is kind of the reason why it’s better here. Damned if you you, damned if you don’t.
Read the whole comment chain again. The other guy said ‘it should be ok for Europeans to ban US social media’. I said ‘do it’. And they then replied about totalitarianism.
So the mention of PRISM confused me because I was talking about EU countries banning facebook and Instagram to protect their citizens.
Actually, you’re right.
If we consider this normal, it would totally be acceptable for Europe to demand a ban or sale of American
spying and propaganda toolssocial media and streaming platforms. Either way, it would reduce the harm they could do - and in the case of a sale, they’d actually have to adhere to consumer friendly laws.They probably should. FB and all those other apps suck just as much.
Fucken do it.
I wish we would, but on the other hand, not being a totalitarian regime is kind of the reason why it’s better here. Damned if you you, damned if you don’t.
Protecting citizens’ interests is not totalitarian.
If it was about protecting citizens interests, PRISM would have been declared illegal and disbanded, not hushed and expanded.
PRISM is European?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
Read the whole comment chain again. The other guy said ‘it should be ok for Europeans to ban US social media’. I said ‘do it’. And they then replied about totalitarianism.
So the mention of PRISM confused me because I was talking about EU countries banning facebook and Instagram to protect their citizens.
I mean, they really should. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter… These are all trash.