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i am really worried about what's going on in eu (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Every day we get closer to an Orwellian society. The United Kingdom may already be one.

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[+] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    No. This is a very naive & dated way of thinking about the world of today. We don’t really have distinct borders distinguishing politicians at that level.

    It’s more accurate to say the Davos group is ruling all western nations. What looks like separate world leaders and parties is actually one world-spanning organization of those with power. And what’s worse, they’re all Nazis and technocrats.

    The Nazis learned from WW2. If you invade a country, the people fight back. If you groom and install/bribe your own people into leadership positions, the people just let it happen.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'm not going to defend the US and it's tech oligarchs, they are all shit, but the way things are going, the EU and the UK are currently in way worse shape than the US in terms of all this 1984 bullshit.

    No country is safe from this anymore, and we may very well be looking at the worse time to be alive when it comes to privacy, regardless of where you live.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Enjoy it. I'm honestly happy to read this. My country has the bad habit of copying all the crappy shit from the US, and none of the good

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I highly doubt it's the worse time. There used to be no concept of privacy you lived in a small town everyone knew everything and you lived in a one room house and familys had on bed for everything. There would have been no privacy at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You do make a good point. However, consider the fact that you could talk with your wife, kids, friends or anyone for that matter, and the only way someone else would find out was if one of the parties involved told someone else or if you were too loud for someone else to listen. Now we have to go fully out of our way to keep anything under wraps, and even then, there's no guarantee that nobody else knows.

    I firmly believe this is the worst the world has ever been for privacy and individualism, and everything points to that everything is going to be worse moving forward.

    Additionally, it's highly that any of us lived through those times you mentioned, so I'm speaking from my own life experience, and I'm over half a century old.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The olygarch's have ruined everything again?

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