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davel , to memes in Thank you American software
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If you find it upsetting that the Chinese state imposes its will on the Chinese capitalist class, then you must really like capitalism, where the capitalist class imposes its will on the state.

davel , to memes in Thank you American software
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This is sort of true, though it’s hard to make a clear distinction between US capitalists and the US government when the capitalists control the government, and have since the 1776 bourgeois revolution.

China is a proletarian state, where the capitalist class is not in control: China’s housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary

Whereas the US is a bourgeois state, where the capitalist class is in control.

davel , to memes in Thank you American software
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All of the US corporate social media platforms are part of the US military-industrial-intellegence complex. Look at their boards of directors and executives. Look at the Twitter Files. Look Hamilton 68.

Look at Reddit:

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They have their eye on the fediverse now as well: Atlantic Council » Collective Security in a Federated World

davel , to memes in Thank you American software
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Anglo in the sense of the Anglosphere, I think: Five Eyes. Five Eyes in basically the inner core of the imperial core.

davel , to memes in Thank you American software
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They were physically relocated to the US so that the US can access the data, as people like Edward Snowden and Mark Klein have shown us. I’m sure the US knows precisely what data is and isn’t being sent to China.

davel , to worldnews in Paul Alexander, the polio survivor who spent over 70 years in an Iron Lung, has died at 78
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Seldom mentioned in the media is that he died from COVID-19.

davel , to memes in Thank you American software
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If so, then maybe the US “intelligence community” doesn’t actually see that as a problem, despite the cold war propaganda.

davel , to memes in Thank you American software
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This forced sale of TikTok for national security is a farce because they were already forced to move their service to the US on an American-owned hosting provider, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman. I think the US “intelligence community” already has everything it needs to monitor and control TikTok.

davel , (edited ) to asklemmy in Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months?
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The overwhelmingly more significant threat is that US corporate social media are integrated with the propaganda machinery of the US government and the capitalist class. The purpose of things like Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Hamilton 68 and the Disinformation Governance Board is not to protect us from foreign influence but for the “intelligence community” to inject its own influence.

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They have their eye on the fediverse now as well: Atlantic Council » Collective Security in a Federated World

This is all an extension of how traditional corporate media works, which has been understood for decades:

davel , to asklemmy in Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months?
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davel , to asklemmy in What field do you work in, and how many digits of pi do you use?
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if you round it to 1, that’s zero digits.

Isn’t rounding to zero digits a nonsensical concept? And “1” is one digit, not zero digits.

davel , to programmerhumor in tar -vczfx123 ought to do it
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you wouldn’t tarball a bomb

davel , to memes in Toothpaste
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Toothpaste commercials put comically large amounts onto toothbrushes to fool people into buying several times more than they need.

davel , to worldnews in Israel to restrict access to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan
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Yes, and still irrelevant.

davel , (edited ) to worldnews in Israel to restrict access to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan
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Not sure. As of 2022, it seems it that occupied Palestine was still mostly Palestinians: Jews now a 47% minority in Israel and the territories, demographer says

But I don’t think this is especially germane to Zuberi’s point.

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