In an unclassified December 11 letter addressed to Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden obtained by the New York Times, NSA director Paul Nakasone confirms the agency buys...

My data is already bought and sold by companies. But when government agencies do it, suddenly we only need to stop them. Stop this madness. It shouldn’t matter if it’s corporations or a government, why not stop the sale of people’s data?

  •  Moira_Mayhem   ( @Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org ) 
    2•8 months ago

    Just because one thing is bad doesn’t mean other things can’t be.

    Tiktok is bad because it weaponizes short attention span laziness and feeds depression.

    TOR is bad because there is a good chance the government has stripped away its privacy capabilities.

    Frankly in my mind that makes Tiktok a fucktonne worse.

    Most of the people ‘harmed’ by TOR exit node scraping are pedos and illegal weapons dealers.

    Most of the people harmed by tiktok is literally 2 generations of youth.

    Can you not see the difference?