Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective. A tankie is someone who
defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves
“socialist”. The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of
Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying
genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes
“true democracies”.
the US gov't definitely doesn't buy your data, they slurp up every electronic signal they can get and store it all in their yottabyte complex in Utah
they've been siphoning off internet traffic from fiber cables at ISPs since fiber became a thing
the US gov't definitely doesn't buy your data, they slurp up every electronic signal they can get and store it all in their yottabyte complex in Utah they've been siphoning off internet traffic from fiber cables at ISPs since fiber became a thing
they do both
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-government-buys-data-americans-little-oversight-report-finds-rcna89035
https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/6/16/23762403/data-odni-report-wyden
https://www.wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-davidson-jacobs-fourth-amendment/
i stand corrected, likely they buy it so they can avoid parallel construction but yeah looks like they do buy it too