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Re:Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Su... by riversflow on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:14PM (#38546704)
> I believe the risk to our freedom is much greater from the latter.

I’ll take power being consolidated in a democratically elected government over a privately controlled corporation any day of the week.

Let’s put the spotlight on the stuff that isn’t democratically controlled, and subject to much more limited oversight.

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Re:Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Su... by colordrops on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:20PM (#38546787)
The US government isn't really democratically controlled, which is obvious to anyone paying attention, and this Princeton paper proves it:

https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/idr.pdf

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Re:Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Su... by wildrhythms on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:46PM (#38547149)
The person you're replying to is making a statement about democratically accountable consolidation of power; not necessarily today's current (and broken) implementations of such things.
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Re:Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Su... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:21PM (#38547621)
No non-broken implementation of such things is known to exist. Democracy itself is the tyranny of the majority even when majority rule is what is actually happening. Concentration of power has to be prevented because of this, not in spite of it.
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Re:Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Su... by autoexec on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:05PM (#38547419)
You know what does control the government? Corporations. Seems like that's where our focus needs to be regardless.
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