• j_elgato@leminal.space
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    21 days ago

    Oh man… probably should have passed laws to regulate data harvesting and digital privacy back in the 90s

    when the Internet was still just a series of tubes…

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    22 days ago

    Haven’t played the game in years, and wasn’t aware of any of this. People discussing “What’s worse, Saudi Arabia or Niantic?” feels positively dystopian.

  • vane@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Wait until you find out that Saudi Arabia have a big stake in Disney, Facebook and OpenAI.

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    22 days ago

    Saudi Arabia? I remember about 10 or so years ago that Saudi Arabia had banned Pokemon because “it promotes materialism”.

    What changed?

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      22 days ago

      After MBS became the de-facto leader (after some purges, to centralize all the power to himself) he started “liberalizing” and giving us more freedoms. It’s all bullshit.

      Women weren’t even allowed to drive four years ago. That was probably the only good thing he gave us.

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          18 days ago

          Yeah this is a pretty dumb take. If all social media is stealing your info, then they are still all stealing your info. This is not “if everyone has superpowers nobody does,” it’s just a dipshit thing to say.