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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (greenwald.substack.com)
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Hacker News.

Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

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[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, we're the people who've been sounding the alarm for 20+ years. I'm tired boss

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I swear the friendly future I had hoped of as a kid in the 80s/90s was either all propaganda, hijacked, or we actually did end up in an alternate timeline of pure fuckery.

This is not the future I evangelized.

And yeah, those of us who grew up through it have seen the horrific turn of things have taken from potential world changing awesome humanity, to absolute evil.