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What is spying? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by sag@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Sorry to post my shitty neofetch to this community

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[-] Redredme@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

In your car, your TV, your network, your dns.....

Everywhere.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are even part of paying for the massive underwater cables between continents that all internet traffic runs through.

They took everything over.

It's the most extensive surveillance network in the world.

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago
[-] SolarMech@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 year ago

Except that instead of an authoritarian government using it to totally control the learned populace, they are showing you ads.

We've still got a way to go before 1984. If it did happen, you wouldn't be able to discuss it.

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Google does release data to governments so I guess it's both.

[-] voluble@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We've always been at war with Eastasia.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Used to be a joke, now its a journey.

[-] BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Literally 1984

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Dystopia has taken over.

[-] Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who is accessing the cables/data has never been more important, it's literally the difference between being in or out of reach of the law.

this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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