"Americans are baffled"?

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@anolandria What the media says people think, and what people actually think do not necessarily intersect.

[dyingworld@mastodon.social]

@anolandria Americans who only consume American news media are thoroughly hoodwinked

[celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange]

@anolandria It needs A LOT to break through the US exceptionalism and pride...

[anolandria@mastodon.social]

@DyingWorld Unquestionably.

[anolandria@mastodon.social]

@elebertus Agreed.

[digital_coolie@mastodon.social]

@anolandria hey now, don't distract the Westerners from their daily China/Russia hate fest. Courtesy their ruling Epstein class.

You get to see a daily dose of it here on Mastodon as well.

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@anolandria I kinda like how us reads well for 2 meanings, 4 interpolations in that parenthetical remark, as an usian.

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@anolandria well, imma get dragged for this, so will start and end with caveats.

A: I agree USA media is censored & heavily manipulated.

B (my point): the OG TikTok fuss was the surveillance baked into it. Spying, not censoring, was when banning and a forced sale began being called for.

hackers (esp cypherpunks) called out the giant irony (only us apps can surveil us like that).

[devin_and_earth@mastodon.social]

@anolandria TikTok uninstalls jumped 150% when the ownership change was announced, so I think many Americans knew what was coming.

[jcolag@mastodon.social]

@anolandria Bear in mind that, when the media says things like "Americans are baffled," they mean that they asked around the office that has spent the last year kissing up to the administration and a few people wearing red trucker hats in a Midwestern diner...

[anolandria@mastodon.social]

@jcolag Oh, no question! Nailed it.

[faab64@freefree.ps]

@anolandria
It's even in Europe, TikTok has turned into a ridiculous media where nothing goes pass their censorship

[hfinyow@mstdn.ca]

@Digital_Coolie @anolandria even the Canadian Prime minister trusts China over the USA, at least right now.

[waitingforthesign@mstdn.ca]

@anolandria@mastodon.social

LOL In America if you want to find out what your neighbours are up to, don't sidle up to a government spook. You can buy the information from advertisers, they know what you eat, the colour of your underwear, how you vote, and when you or your other is pregnant. Imo the only security problem was the direction of profits.