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I'm worried that in the future we will be forced to use smartphones just like in China (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by ULTIMATEDEAD@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In China, you can't exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the future and I hate "progress".

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate the future and I hate "progress".

Cool, so get off the internet and quit annoying the rest of us.

[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lol. this guy thinks the internet is “the future” and “progress” it was both of these things 30 years ago. now it’s just a heap of old shit.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google and Meta walled gardens are the cancer of the internet, not the internet itself.

[–] cincinmasukmangkok@lemmy.my.id 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Average people are actually the cancer of the internet for giving them too much power & being ignorant