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I'm worried that in the future we will be forced to use smartphones just like in China (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm the opposite; coming from a more digital society my worry isn't that we'll all use smartphones, but that people don't have access to digital initiatives and will be left behind. I also am concerned with how some things don't have more regulatory oversight.

In short, smartphones good, unregulated big tech, bad. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[โ€“] xionzui 10 points 1 year ago

The real issue is the concentration of power. WeChat is the gatekeeper and moderator of basically everything in China. They decide what apps and services are allowed to be successful. If they see something doing well, they have the data and the control to make a copy of it and replace the original with it. Sort of like Amazon does in the retail space.

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