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Why are Lemmy tankies advocating for FOSS and Privacy, meanwhile People's Republic of China is promoting a proprietary "Super-App" (Wechat) and require real name verification online? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kinda ironic...

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Surveillance capitalism is only bad when the evil Western imperialists do it. When the glorious paragons of socialist virtue in the best country in the world do it, it's fine.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

"You see comrade, the IDs are to ensure everyone is exactly who they are. It would be against the revolution to hide who you are against the government. They could be paid shills, or something."