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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by xenocyon on Thursday October 03, 2019 @03:22PM (#21150988)
As a parent, I reject this disingenuous pretense of concern for "the children". Folks are eager to invoke children to justify the surveillance state while conveniently forgetting the plight of children when it comes to concentration camps, poverty, and climate change. Secondly, children themselves have frequently been the victim of surveillance abuses and there is no reason to suspect that this instance will be any different.
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by justanotherjoe on Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:35PM (#21154563)
"Children have frequently been the victim of surveillance abuses"

What are you talking about? I'm seriously asking. This sounds like something people say without having anything real behind it.

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by xenocyon on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:43AM (#21158757)
Here is one particularly egregious example: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/610k-settlement-in-school-webca...
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by darkkindness on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:25PM (#21161032)
Here is another example that is less of an isolated event:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/opinion/surveillance-stat...

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by adfgadfasa on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:07PM (#21151547)
Yeah considering the profoundly terrible conditions in the concentration camps this administration is holding children in, this seems a littlllleeee disingenuous.
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by eloff on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:30PM (#21152956)
You scoff, but history is full of democracies that did things like that. Recent history. Governments can go bad, and we should be especially wary in an age when technology gives then extra leverage. I wonder if there will come a day when it's impossible to overthrow your government - or if we're already there.

Edit: actually thinking you might be seriously talking about conditions for illegal immigrants detained in the US. Hyperbole, but still not a nice situation.

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by adfgadfasa on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:22PM (#21153303)
Your edit is correct, I'm very serious unfortunately.
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by eloff on Friday October 04, 2019 @12:51AM (#21154860)
I'm married to a Latina and spent ten years in Latin America. I think the current situation is deplorable, but these are the times we live in. I hope it gets better after this next election.
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by outoftheabyss on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:37PM (#21151901)
This administration? Is that singular?
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by adfgadfasa on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:19PM (#21153291)
I'm not interested in getting into a slapfight about who was worse, but I think it's pretty clear that _The Trump Administration_ is treating Southern American migrants purposefully poorly.

I know you're trying to point out some supposed hypocrisy for not criticizing Obama or Clinton or something, so I'll let you know I think they too enacted unforgivable political violence. Happy?

People exist outside the Republican/Democrat spectrum.

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by outoftheabyss on Friday October 04, 2019 @05:06PM (#21161888)
Yes, just convenient how silent those people are in certain unforgivable situations, until it comes to retrospect of course
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by adfgadfasa on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:39PM (#21184422)
You're purposefully misrepresenting the left to stroke your ego. People were extremely critical of Obama during his terms.

Stop JAQing off and stuff your crypto-fascist views up your ass you Trump slurping gonorrhea nodule.

inb4 "Leftists can't have civil discussions"

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by outoftheabyss on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:50PM (#21186326)
Fascist. Classic.
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by adfgadfasa on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:02PM (#21186444)
Oh fuck you got me. Good work. I'm going to renounce my political views now.

Shut the fuck up you stupid fash.

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by outoftheabyss on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:32PM (#21187122)
You have issues
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