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I'm worried that in the future we will be forced to use smartphones just like in China (lemmy.ml)
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In China, you can't exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the future and I hate "progress".

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[–] Tangent5280 0 points 1 year ago

The lens of the average person is currently under 6 feet of mud and water after having been victimised by an authoritarian government and system that prioritised fast progress over safe progress. It's hard to even find news about this because the machine systematically cuts internet access of people who try to bring light on the floods.