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I'm really wondering whether you've even clicked the link. Your comment may or may not be true, but it's completely unrelated to the linked article.

'They are dealers, not leaders’: Retired judges, officers [in India] write to [Indian] President seeking action against ‘China-backed portal’

"We have no words to describe such people except as traitors. … we are giving too wide a leverage to all kinds of inimical forces under the garb of ‘free press’. … The email exchanges that are in the public domain establish beyond doubt that these people are not leaders but dealers. They are not columnists but actually fifth columnists,” the letter said.

No, they aren't. In 15 or 20 years, however, when people have left their indoctrination camps disguised as schools ...

There's is also Jstor Open Content and Sci-hub, just fyi.

Edit: I forgot libgen (simply speaking, libgen is for books what sci-hub is for papers).

@morry040

@jarfil

Worldcoin's latest funding round was back in the fall, it raised USD 115m from the venture fund Blockchain Capital as lead investor, other investors included a16z crypto, Bain Capital Crypto, and Distributed Global.

In 2021 and 2022, there have been at least 3 other funding rounds with a total volume of at least USD 215m.

Last year the MIT Technology Review published an extensive research report. It's a very long read but it's worth the time if I may say so.

Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users

Our [MIT] investigation revealed wide gaps between Worldcoin’s public messaging, which focused on protecting privacy, and what users experienced. We found that the company’s representatives used deceptive marketing practices, collected more personal data than it acknowledged, and failed to obtain meaningful informed consent. These practices may violate the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)—a likelihood that the company’s own data consent policy acknowledged and asked users to accept—as well as local laws. [...]

Pete Howson, a senior lecturer at Northumbria University who researches cryptocurrency in international development, categorizes Worldcoin’s actions as a sort of crypto-colonialism, where “blockchain and cryptocurrency experiments are being imposed on vulnerable communities essentially because…these people can’t push back,” he told MIT Technology Review in an email.

@Elw

I agree with what you say about inequality and get your point, though I am not sure whether exactly these individuals were in urgent need of extra 50 bucks. A major point here is information and education here (or, better, the lack of it).

Whether or not we call it slavery, it is for sure a gross exploitation of labour. The article reminds us that we in the so-called 'western world' can only afford their luxury life because there's someone elsewhere who pays the price.

Maybe it was a Reddit bot 😅

So it's not actually a smartphone vulnerability as much as it is an SMS vulnerbility?

It indeed is, that's right. I changed the headline. Thanks.

@lasagna

I don't see what that has to do with any political ideology. China claims to be a communist country and the situation there regarding surveillance is much worse.

@stevecrox

I fully agree.

I would rather see politicians blindly doing whatever experts say than greedily doing what lobbyists pay for.

@Killakomodo

why would Hong Kong NOT want to be with China /s

There are a lot of reasons (as you probably know yourself), but to give you a report published just this week.

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of China

This submission highlights Human Rights Watch’s concerns regarding Chinese government human rights violations. Since the previous UPR in 2018, China’s authoritarian government under President Xi Jinping—who began an unprecedented third term in 2022—has deepened repression inside the country and sought to undermine human rights abroad. Authorities have arbitrarily detained human rights defenders, tightened control over civil society, media, and the internet, and deployed invasive mass surveillance technology. The government imposes particularly heavy-handed control in Xinjiang and Tibet. Authorities’ cultural persecution and arbitrary detention of a million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims since 2017 amount to crimes against humanity. In Hong Kong, the government imposed draconian national security legislation in 2020 and systematically dismantled the city’s freedoms. The government hindered international efforts to investigate the origins of Covid-19, muzzled critics abroad, and undermined global human rights institutions. People across China and in the diaspora took to the streets in late 2022 to demand human rights and democracy in China.

You'll find much more across the web.

In addition to what is already mentioned, you may consider andisearch.com

New analysis of today’s Spring 2023 budget shows a further £21.6bn (2022/​23 prices) in unannounced cuts to public services by 2027/​28

[The researchers] also estimated the hit to local economies as a result of below- inflation pay settlements for public sector workers across the country. The research showed the implied offer of 8.7% on average for public sector workers over two years between 2022 and 2024 amounts to a real- terms pay cut of 8%

Austerity led to twice as many excess UK deaths as previously thought

Cuts to public services and living standards across Britain from 2010 contributed to 335,000 excess deaths – twice as many as previously thought, according to new research. These austerity measures were introduced by the coalition government elected into office that year, partly in response to the banking crash of 2008.

Ann Widdecombe: don’t have cheese sandwiches if you can’t afford them

The former Brexit party MEP said there was no “given right” for low food prices, despite being told families “cannot afford to feed their children” and were having to make huge sacrifices as the cost of living crisis deepens.

Austerity is pushing thousands of families to the brink in Stoke-on-Trent

Lead researcher Professor David Etherington, Staffordshire University, said: “We are heading towards a humanitarian crisis. The cost-of-living for many people in Stoke-on-Trent was already high before 2022, due to poorly paid work and cuts to the welfare state, meaning many people struggled to meet their basic needs and pay their bills. What we are seeing is more people falling deeper into debt.”

I could continue that almost endlessly given the research on austerity in the UK, but I guess you got point.

Fair. It's one thing if right wingers flock there and another if Meta tries to take advantage of it, though. I posted a second article in this thread.

It seems we agree to disagree. The point I make is pretty clear, and it doesn't make sense if you repeating your arvuments over and over again.

It’s not forced on you. If you don’t download Threads and log in, you’re not on threads.

Although that's technically true, it is clear what Meta is doing here (and even if most may know that the company sucks, I personally feel it is important report on things like that). Meta's tactics should create a hype making people believe there are substantially more users than there actually are. The mass of people won't recognize (or even care?) what's going on I'm afraid.

That's what I thought, too, but unfortunately I feel somehow there's more to come.