FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names

Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by godelski on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:57PM (#20472329)

I mean China does have connection camps and quite an Orwellian society.

Saying this doesn't mean I condone what the US is doing with Latin Americans right now, but the way you frame it suggests that China and Russia aren't doing things that many of us in the West find reprehensible. They are authoritarian regimes after all. (Again, that's not saying the West doesn't also do these things, but I do think there is a clear difference in degrees. I don't think my belief is uncommon either).

More importantly, the comment comes off like we shouldn't criticize them. Why not? (We should also criticize the West, because frankly that an essential part of democracy)

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by resters on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:23PM (#20474522)

All governments use the same playbook, and one of the plays is concentration camps. The US media shows us the worst of China and the Chinese media shows the Chinese people the worst of the US.

Our greatest responsibility is our own nation. Those who try to engender righteous indignation in us about other nations are usually the ones who benefit most from our own worst deeds and practices.

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