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And then, when Covid happened, this was shown to be a complete farce, as the #1 most proud country in the world about privacy protection that exceeded even the EU laws (Germany) started using the mobile networks to literally track every person's movement during lockdowns and basically do mass surveillance of their own population. "The new normal" they called the set of Covid measures, on big billboards and stickers on the floors of train stations.

I remember this... I was in Germany at the time. Many requests to see my vaccination card.

They're hostile to sovereignty. So is the US. As is every state. The differences are minimal. US' attempt to reduce asymmetry in the Bill of Right has been largely neutered. But, back to my initial point, not on AI, lol.

There are many things I do like about Europe... However the individual sovereignty there is much worse than in the US. And when I say Europe I mean European Union.

Americans can have and do have a huge number of guns, Europe doesn't allow that at all. I think its terribly wrong to collect tax money from people and them disarm them it's unethical and poor governance. If you're responsible enough to pay taxes you're responsible enough to stay armed generally speaking.

If you're not American, you're fucking evil, because it really matters where on the planet your mom pushed your lil naked butt out. Born naked, yet marked for life.

I think this is a point people are missing... No restrictions apply to overseas surveillance. Of course if someone overseas communicates with someone domestic then...

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Of course if someone overseas communicates with someone domestic then...

This has been covered under the Patriot act since its inception though? All it takes is one foreign national and that comms stream is fee game.

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I can't see how government wouldn't have Claude/Grok/Gemini/Gpt collect it all and analyze it all. Analyze an enormous number of patterns... If it isn't doing that already.

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There's this company called Palantir... check 'em out sometimes.

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