[absolutelyrad]

> https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview

WTF? This makes me extremely uncomfortable for some reason. There was some hope in mind that Snowden was exaggerating but this is just insane.

It feels like liberty has failed. There's no other option but to give in and accept.

I submit to the overlords, but I'm not happy about this.

[hoot]

Liberty is not free. If you value it, then you're going to have to fight for it. Submission now leads to your descendants living in an oppressive dystopia.

[javert]

It leads to us living in an oppressive dystopia.

[mancerayder]

The pressure should be on our governments to regulate the powerful (Google). Meanwhile we're happily electing people who have direct ties to Silicon Valley big tech and calling ourselves Resistance. It cuts both ways!

Without government help, the only way to fight the oppressive dystopia you talked about is by becoming Richard Stallman. And I value not living in a university office and having to use Lynx and pine.

[fsflover]

> There's no other option but to give in and accept.

Yes, there are options: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone

[hutzlibu]

Why do you give up, because other people know more about you, than you thought?

Maybe giving up on the "nobody must ever know", but maybe not in general?

There are still quite some steps from here to 1984, despite people dramatizing.

[badsectoracula]

Maybe but the direction is towards 1984 not away from it.

[hutzlibu]

Yup. But the more people believe we are already there and give up, the faster we accelerate.

[texasbigdata]

This is bad math but there’s 220 million “elligible” Americans (not too young, not too old); if we assume 85% cellphone/ tech penetration that represents 0.1% of all Americans a year on napkin bar math.