Re:The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns
by unity1001 on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:01PM
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> I'm aware of that too, it's a problem, but the lesser one imho.
How the hell CIA rendition flights are a 'lesser problem'.
> Western companies subject to Western laws, which Western citizens have some say in
Western public has not been able to change neither the economic policy, nor forign policy, nor the surveillance state laws in the past 40 years. Also, the western laws are wantonly ignored in the west when western corporate or state interests are at stake. So no.
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This is exceptionalism. You are applying to others the standards that you are not applying to your own side, where you have no means to do anything about the problem.
Its a coping mechanism that helps avoid cognitive dissonance by projecting 'worse' problems to outside, to external 'enemies'.
How the hell CIA rendition flights are a 'lesser problem'.
> Western companies subject to Western laws, which Western citizens have some say in
Western public has not been able to change neither the economic policy, nor forign policy, nor the surveillance state laws in the past 40 years. Also, the western laws are wantonly ignored in the west when western corporate or state interests are at stake. So no.
...
This is exceptionalism. You are applying to others the standards that you are not applying to your own side, where you have no means to do anything about the problem.
Its a coping mechanism that helps avoid cognitive dissonance by projecting 'worse' problems to outside, to external 'enemies'.