I mean it’s been talked about over and over again leading to US accusing TikTok of spying on users and EU* banning Huawei and ZTE from 5G infrastructure.
But end users just doesn’t care. They click accept all on every popup without even reading if it’s cookies or to allow the site to send scam antivirus notifications. They buy the cheap chinese phone because it’s cheap just as they buy shit from Temu and Shein even when their plastic is poisonous and their workers are stuck with 75 hour weeks and not being allowed to leave the premises.
It’s already here. We exploit incarcerated people for slave labor, and (I’m sure purely out of coincidence /s) we have one of the highest incarceration rates of any nation in the world. Not to mention private prisons, which is not a thing that would exist in any state existing in good faith.
Yep! And it wasn’t that long ago I actually lost my job explicitly for being gay, which was totally legal. That’s one of the reasons the US has to fear-monger about other nations, so we won’t notice the exact same things or worse happening here.
I mean it’s been talked about over and over again leading to US accusing TikTok of spying on users and EU* banning Huawei and ZTE from 5G infrastructure.
But end users just doesn’t care. They click accept all on every popup without even reading if it’s cookies or to allow the site to send scam antivirus notifications. They buy the cheap chinese phone because it’s cheap just as they buy shit from Temu and Shein even when their plastic is poisonous and their workers are stuck with 75 hour weeks and not being allowed to leave the premises.
*Not all EU countries has chosen to ban them.
https://cybernews.com/security/bytedance-used-tiktok-data-spy-on-americans-supreme-court/
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/08/12/eleven-eu-countries-took-5g-security-measures-to-ban-huawei-zte
That will be coming to the western world before you know it.
It’s already here. We exploit incarcerated people for slave labor, and (I’m sure purely out of coincidence /s) we have one of the highest incarceration rates of any nation in the world. Not to mention private prisons, which is not a thing that would exist in any state existing in good faith.
True that. Also, right to work. I’m not USAmerican though so I’m not as aware.
Yep! And it wasn’t that long ago I actually lost my job explicitly for being gay, which was totally legal. That’s one of the reasons the US has to fear-monger about other nations, so we won’t notice the exact same things or worse happening here.