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Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN threaten to exit Canada if metadata surveillance law passes
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States are built on control. They literally only exist because they are the dominant power structure in a specific area.
States pushing for more freedom is antithetical.
I agree with that (unlike the other answer I got to this; yeah, Soviet-aligned states were definitely very free societies amirite /s), but then again, sometimes there are more or less successful movements toward more freedom. The history of the 20th century alone is that of the century ending with much more freedom in the world than there was during most of it. How have we completely forgotten those values?
Yes. Just to be clear I’m not a pessimist, I don’t believe we can’t achieve more freedom. I’m just an anarchist. I believe to truly end domination and have self-determination, the move towards freedom must ultimately aim to end the state.
I think there are things we need some sort of state for... but certainly think its power should be limited so that it can't do things like what this thread is about!
The problem is that tracking people is big money, so tech companies like Google, Meta, Palantir, Flock, etc stand to make a lot of money. So they're heavily ~~bribing~~ lobbying governments to make it easier to track people