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Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

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Re: Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

#41
We live in the USA. I had a friend tell me they won't use Chinese models because models like K3 only have moonshot as the provider which is in China. They were afraid of surveillance. My rebuttal was that the Chinese can't send police to our door based on the conversation you have with their models while US companies can.

I'd rather the Chinese have my data over a US company because... what could they do? I live here, not China.

Re: Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

#44

If so, the solution may well be making more private speech more public, rather than making more public speech more private. Imagine if every email provider had an option to "publicize" next to the ability to star an email or email thread. It's the private, anti-free speech stuff that would be interesting to see up close. And I'm just talking about email communications.

That might take a while for the necessary changes to cultural norms to set in, and I'd think it would get a bit spicy in the meantime.

Re: Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

#45
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Anyone else notice that the things certain people claim to be "not allowed to say" are somehow wedged into every single thread, post, or forum on the internet? If you were actually forbidden from saying it, then I wouldn't have to read it 20 times a day.

Re: Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

#47
So many platforms banning people for not having the site’s chosen position was a bigger impact than anything that’s happened in the last 5 years. I think online speech was dead well before that. It’s just a bunch of people agreeing with each other, because everyone else has been banned or is afraid of being banned.
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