Deceptichum

I don’t think we ever had 8 million people.

Yeah pretty damning for how bad China is if that’s considered better.

You can’t freely compete with near slave labor conditions and zero environmental regulations. . .

China makes the US look like the EU in comparison for those things.

I don’t use a VPN because my government has acknowledged that an IP address cannot identify what individual was using it.

? They own the data. They don’t need it to be public to access it.

We do nothing.

Somehow our politicians will get their pockets greased and stop mentioning this.

We carry on. One foot behind where we were yesterday, which was a step behind the day before.

Eventually we’ll all be fucked with no rights or protections, just property of the state and whatever corpos own it.

The suspension could have wide-reaching effects on pop culture globally.

Damn, real shame that.

Oh well.

Within 18 months, a cop will have used this to put the frighteners on his ex-wife’s new man or something similar. Within 3 years, all pretence will have been abandoned and everyone from the ATO to local councils will have access to the real-world IDs of people’s online accounts.

This is like word-for-word how every single digital police tool has gone so far in this country.

Before a thing comes in there's a huge uproar about the damages it could cause, it comes in causes damages, public goes 'oh well' and we keep the thing.

At no point do we ever look back and say 'Hmm no let's undo that thing we only implemented a few months ago, it's clearly harmful to the public. We're in a losing war, where soon even worse will be normalised.

What do they consider social media?

I used bboards all the time at those ages and that international exposure was the greatest thing ever for my growth and development.

Early childhood is preschool aged, so ages 0-5. What some may call nursery/creche/daycare/kindergarten.

Early Childhood Education.

I work in a 97% female industry.