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Re:TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global inform... by zaro on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @12:06PM (#24409752)
But can you really? What are you really choosing from? One senile old man versus senior nacisistics idiot.

Doesn't seem like much of a choice.

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Re:TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global inform... by sbmthakur on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:21PM (#24410529)
Isn't that better than only one option? Also the choices have new additions every four years.
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Re:TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global inform... by zaro on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:54PM (#24416910)
I don't know. On one hand there is no choice, on the other hand there is illusion of choice.

I would say that no choice is more honest. The illusion of choice is a bit like the fake buttons on traffic lights, it's there to make you think you are in control of something while you are really not.

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