• skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I would much rather go to China than the USA right now.

    China wouldn’t search my phone at the border and China wouldnt arrest me for opinionated social posts I had previously made.

    This backwards world we live in.

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      3 days ago

      I think they might also and also bug your phone. It’s just that the US has become so bad they’re converging to what dictatorships have been doing for ages already

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        3 days ago

        Every cell phone in the US is a “bug” at the behest of our corporate advertisers and data brokers.

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          3 days ago

          Fully agree, can still get worse than the default setting and I don’t care if the US or China installs Pegasus on your phone we shouldn’t pretend any government can be trusted