If phones did this, especially to custom-tailor ads, like I’ve seen claimed countless times, then security researchers would be perfectly capable of uncovering this behavior without someone on the inside.

When you make calls via these services, the entirety of that data is being routed through their service. What you’re asking is if google/apple actually stores that data. You should always assume they do, for a threat analysis.

I suggest reading about the Crypto AG honeypot scandal, which was a secure service that ran for over 60 years before it was revealed to be an CIA honeypot. Leaks in the future will likely reveal the same for US surveillance capital services.

Would take a whistleblower to expose these things, and usually its done many years after.

Also its not that there’s some person currently listening. Its that they’re storing and probably transcribing all communications for all time, so that at any moment in the future, they can target a person and look up that history.

Also we know google and apple have been forwarding all these to the US goverment also, since at least ~2011, via the prism program, and thanks to Snowden and Manning’s leaks.

I haven’t, but that sounds like my jam. Thx!

You’re clearly a unique thinker and not influenced at all by decades of anticommunist propaganda.

https://mronline.org/2006/09/21/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/

Life expectancy increased from 35 in 1949 to 65 in the 1970s when Mao’s rule came to an end.

Columbo’s specialty was taking down arrogant elite snobs, there’s never a shortage of them. He’d have the whole western pedophile plutocracy in prison within a few weeks if he was empowered to do so.

I’m begging someone with a good columbo meme stash to make a community here. I need more of them.

“The western world” in politics doesn’t usually refer to geography, but to the high income euro-amerikkkan countries who benefitted from hundreds of years of theft (much from the countries you mentioned), who based themselves on individualism, private property, and capitalism, and prided themselves on their opposition to the collectivist policies of eastern countries.

This is why Cuba for example is not considered part of the western world, yet japan and south korea are.

Marxists also generally use the term “global south” or “the periphery” to refer to lower-income / exploited via unequal exchange, even though there are some “middle” / lower income countries in the global north also. It gets confusing I know.

These are all incredibly weak justifications wrapped in legalese, that’s really just a thin posturing as to their position, which is white/western supremacy, and refusing to hold themselves accountable for hundreds of years of ongoing theft. The EU also refuses to vote for the condemnation of nazism using the same type of legalistic justifications.

I don’t have time to go through each of their sentences, but someone easily could ala the style of Marx’s critique of the gotha programme, because there’s hidden meanings and psychology behind almost every sentence that requires a paragraph.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html

I love hjson / json5 for config files: https://hjson.github.io/

Never understood the toml philosophy of trying to flatten every object field.