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minus-squareSirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoI think the Gaza genocide definitely accelerated the push for more internet surveillance, but this probably would’ve happened regardless with how tech giants are always looking for new angles to monopolize and control the internet.
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agopushes to do this languished until gaza – and other counter-narratives – became too popular to ignore. they weren’t started because of gaza and they may have succeeded w/o it; but they clearly did here.
minus-squareSoot [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoBasically all the tech giants oppose this move, though. This is pure government surveillance baby.
minus-squareSirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoI wish I still lived in your fantasy world where the interests of governments and tech giants aren’t fully merged.
minus-squareSoot [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoOf course the whole bourgeois class share common interests. But not entirely so. Else… why do tech giants oppose this move?
minus-squareSirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoDo they actually oppose this move or just some of them?
I think the Gaza genocide definitely accelerated the push for more internet surveillance, but this probably would’ve happened regardless with how tech giants are always looking for new angles to monopolize and control the internet.
pushes to do this languished until gaza – and other counter-narratives – became too popular to ignore.
they weren’t started because of gaza and they may have succeeded w/o it; but they clearly did here.
Basically all the tech giants oppose this move, though. This is pure government surveillance baby.
I wish I still lived in your fantasy world where the interests of governments and tech giants aren’t fully merged.
Of course the whole bourgeois class share common interests. But not entirely so. Else… why do tech giants oppose this move?
Do they actually oppose this move or just some of them?
Yes