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by hunglee2 1344 days ago
incredible as it may seem to say, data security is a secondary concern vs the very concept of these businesses, which exercise enormous and often malign influence over the lives of citizens. Take together, the are in effect a privatised 'social credit' system which can stop you from getting a home, a car, a job, any kind of insurance, effectively cutting you off from healthcare and the rest. They are instruments of oppression, their private status providing US Gov moral cover and the permission to still claim 'land of the free'