• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    We could also all be living under a social credit score system like in China, but most of us aren’t. Just because something could become our reality, doesn’t mean we should avoid all progress in that field.

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      1 year ago

      But Smartphones are tracked and hacked by governments. And it is legal in most cases. And people are killed by governments.

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          In the end it doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not. They will do it anyways. Like it was the case with Preditor and the Greek government. Or Pegasus and Mexico. In the case of Pegasus and Mexico, people actually died.

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      […] we should avoid all progress in that field

      Who said that? Because I did not