• FundMECFS@piefed.zip
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    3 hours ago

    States are built on control. They literally only exist because they are the dominant power structure in a specific area.

    States pushing for more freedom is antithetical.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      The problem is that tracking people is big money, so tech companies like Google, Meta, Palantir, Flock, etc stand to make a lot of money. So they’re heavily bribing lobbying governments to make it easier to track people

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 hours ago

      I agree with that (unlike the other answer I got to this; yeah, Soviet-aligned states were definitely very free societies amirite /s), but then again, sometimes there are more or less successful movements toward more freedom. The history of the 20th century alone is that of the century ending with much more freedom in the world than there was during most of it. How have we completely forgotten those values?