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Yeah. That's the implementation issue. It'd need to go top->down somehow.

And I wouldn't say nobody cares. It's just that a lot of what's happening is quite technical for normal people and in many countries you can't even really do much about it. At this point you're getting bent over by your government, other peoples governments, awkward techbros with visions, weirdos with business plans, etc..




> It's just that a lot of what's happening is quite technical for normal people

What's the point of news media if not to explain these issues to the general public in a way they can understand? If we lived in a free and open society that values personal privacy and opposes government overreach, this would be prime-time news, plastered across the front pages of every newspaper.

I don't see a practical difference between what's happening here and what's happening in China, except that the Western world is considerably more nuanced in how it controls the (global) narrative. We've been living in an Orwellian nightmare for a long time.


The news media is in many cases simply stenographers for the state/government/corporate interests.




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