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TomVilmer

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11. Actually a good idea...

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Fri Nov 22, 2019, 08:31 AM

Nov 2019

... just like when the EU demands a free choice of browsers. And as somebody living in the EU, I am not more disturbed by possible Russian surveillance in Russia, than I am of US surveillance in Europe. More from the Big Brother companies misusing my data on a daily basis.

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Russia bans sale of gadgets without Russian-made software [View all] jpak Nov 2019 OP

Well of course they did DUgosh Nov 2019 #1

Naw, they wouldn't safeinOhio Nov 2019 #2

Exactly. Don't have to wrry about me ever buying Russian gadgets. GAH iluvtennis Nov 2019 #4

That's some low effort on Russia's part... Sapient Donkey Nov 2019 #3

Reminds me of the 'Buy American' days ArizonaLib Nov 2019 #5

Yeah they are so similar BannonsLiver Nov 2019 #12

You may want to read Shoshana Zuboff's 'Big Data as Surveillance Capitalism' LanternWaste Nov 2019 #15

There goes Apple. crazytown Nov 2019 #6

Re-building of the Iron Curtain C Moon Nov 2019 #7

But we been buying shit from all over the Pentagon uses imported electronics.... Historic NY Nov 2019 #8

They've taken note of what China has done to control content and dissent. Ford_Prefect Nov 2019 #9

Pre-installed malware/spyware. Big Brother is sniffing data packets. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2019 #10

Actually a good idea... TomVilmer Nov 2019 #11

Well there's the pro putin, false equivalency point of view. BannonsLiver Nov 2019 #13

- or the "outside of the bubble" POV TomVilmer Nov 2019 #16

I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation for this. nt eppur_se_muova Nov 2019 #14

Clearing the way for the trump org... discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2019 #17