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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by qwytw on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:44AM (#35370200)
> Soviet Union, China and Russia copied the US

Do you really believe in this or are you just saying this? Mass surveillance was a thing in the USSR decades 30-50 years earlier than in the US.

Also much more effective too... Say something inappropriate semi publicly and of you go to the gulag (they toned it down and switch to psich hospitial after the 60s).

> leadership because the state doesn't have to engage in lying too much

tanks go brr... amirite comrade ?

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by ghostDancer on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:29PM (#35377744)
Never forget, also on the other side of the wall, East Germany the paradigm of control and spying on their own citizens.
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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by DuckFeathers on Saturday April 01, 2023 @04:57PM (#35403993)
> Say something inappropriate semi publicly and of you go to the gulag

You're thinking Snowden and Assange. In the Soviet Union, they were sent to the gulags for spying for the enemy.

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