• Foni@lemmy.zip
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    17 days ago

    How do you think that countries with a GDPR came to have governments concerned about that kind of thing? My option still seems better to me

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      17 days ago

      By having people actively interacting with their government instead of ignoring it until it did something they didn’t like and then threatening them with violence.

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      17 days ago

      Your option is a collective action. Mine is individual. These are not mutually exclusive. But I cannot do a collective action on my own. I don’t have a guillotine but I can afford airfare out and I don’t need to rely on actions of others to take the individual action.

      You must have a lot of confidence in democracy in the US to do right by the people. I’ll leave this quote here:

      “In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they’re really factions of the same party, the Business Party.”

      – Noam Chomsky (1990)