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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by johnchristopher on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:37PM (#20472741)
> Why is this different than the US? It's not. But it's like nuclear weapons, yeah? We are the only ones who can be trusted with them. Therein lies the rub, as they say.

Yeah, well, no, stop. Facebook and social networks are regularly taking punches in the face and the US never prevented vkontact, mastodon or other clone to develop. There isn't a moratorium on social networks and public agreement to "limit the scope of our arsenal".

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by jklinger410 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:48PM (#20472844)
My only point is that we are not perfect. Can I point to the number of private/government partnerships that cross ethical lines?

Mercenary groups (ie blackwater), Palantir, for-profit prisons, Tech companies complying with federal warrants, so-on. I will give you that it's not 1:1, and I think that's a fair counterpoint to people who don't trust the US.

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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by johnchristopher on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:37AM (#20489968)
> My only point is that we are not perfect. Can I point to the number of private/government partnerships that cross ethical lines?

That's whataboutism.

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