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  • Wait you said you didn’t know better so let me try and explain the geopolitical importance of pakistan to USA.

    Basically US has always had one country “pro-US” in that region because of china. India always had a very close connection with russia so US had a close connection with pakistan. Think back to how Pakistan helped train mujahideen in afghanistan?

    Anyways then china rose to power and pakistan started siding with china so naturally US started siding with india.

    Now the issue is US has already left afghanistan and russia has attacked ukraine. And india is much much closer to russia so now that leaves Pakistan.

    Imran khan had to go away because he was pro-“independence from the west”.

    If you look at Pakistan China relationship, you will see that chinese companies are pulling out their projects/workers from Pakistan. Pak-China relationship is probably at its lowest.

    Meanwhile, pakistan usa relationship is getting stronger and stronger.




  • These are very loose terms. Pretty much every major website saves IP addresses when you create an account (to prevent abuse/spam detection). And you can get location info from the IP address. Hence the first condition would be true for all of those websites.

    Next, any website/app that builds a recommendation system will save user interactions to build the “algorithm”. So every social media with an algorithm will fall into this category.

    With enough bending of terminology, we might be able to prove that the lemmy also collects user data (although it will be really hard cuz the algo here is based on upvotes and time posted iirc). And “large amount” part is just legal filler words.




  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.worldPOV: It's January 19th
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    Tiktok got banned not for peddling “chinese propaganda” but instead not peddling the US one.

    All the major tech companies in the US take measures to ensure content deemed unworthy by the government never become mainstream or viral.

    This is done under the pretense of stopping “hate speech” or “terroristic propaganda” but often include things like pro-palestinian content or class struggle content (like luigi mangione stuff).

    Tiktok was bold enough to not do that by default, cuz they wanted someone to ask them to do this and then it would become a huge scandal about how the US suppresses free speech. And US gov don’t want to do that for this exact reason as well. So they decided to ban it.

    Remember talks for this “law” were initiated when all of a sudden tiktok became a host for pro-palestinian voices. We should ask ourselves, how is it that 60% of americans want the government to stop arms sales to israel but this 60% never shows up on the big social media platforms. But on other platforms like here in lemmy and tiktok, pro-palestinians is the majority.

    For further reading, listen to employees fired from big US tech companies for voicing their concerns over the palestine issue, or read Meta’s new terms and conditions specially the section on “dangerous organizations and individuals”.