@MamaMews @Leander0_0@_megrocks Because they’re scared of China “stealing data,” which I agree with you that this is unnecessary and that most other US corporations give your data to malicious sources anyways. But that’s the issue, not free speech, so don’t frame it like it’s repression.
Not only is this not the first generation immune to propaganda, they appear to have no propaganda antibodies whatsoever. Like they have some propaganda autoimmune disorder.
the issue with modern political discourse is that we identify the worst part of an ideology as representing the entire ideology. for some reason, strawmanning is only okay when we do it, and when they do it, it’s a personal attack on us that only someone like them would do.