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Hacker News.

Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

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[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

My dad rips his name out of junk mail and shreds it. He doesn't want his name tied to his address, which is ironic in the first place, given that he's already getting junk mail. He's been worried about hiding his identity, address, cars, etc from some unknown surveillance entity based around Red Scare beliefs. Still, a few steps short of foil hat types.

Then he went and got cloud-based cameras. He's clueless about smartphone privacy already. He resembles his friends in his cohort. They protested "leftist government surveillance" and then showed me that they'd will invite mystery surveillance in with the slightest promise of convenience.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sounds about right. Boomers are adorable.

What's also interesting to me about this is imagining how many crimes they know about that they simply allow to take place.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I mean why assume a boomer. Very easily a genx or millennial. Think about it millennials kids are around 20 now.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's fair. Gen Z and millenials are radicalized by their corporate social media feeds too. I just default to Boomer because, for so long, Boomers were emblematic of this kind of thinking.

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