Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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that’s a good image to convey the message to people propagandized by the us, but yes, "fbi" and "repressive regimes" are one and the same here
your domestic government poses much more of a threat to your privacy than some foreign "repressive regime" far away
I took it as “repressive regime” to mean the administration itself, (not some foreign government), as in more normal times the fbi was a separate entity. And would even investigate the president for crimes. But given the current consolidation of power and that checks and balances have been compromised, I suppose the distinction is moot now.
Love the weird scale of threat depicted here.
-smol bean megacorporation
-regular bean fbi man
-Big Hacker, the big hacker lobbyist
-giant evil FOREIGNER with their evil UNIFORM and MEDALS
-ect, other guys, artist kind of blew his load drawing all those evil medals
Like the scale implies I should be most worried about the biggest guy, but I live in America. The feds are the biggest threat to me. You can tell this wasn't drawn by a leftist because...well, almost everything, but mostly because of how normal they seem to think the FBI is, and how small a deal being spied on by them apparently is compared to being spied on by someone that doesn't have the capacity to send a death squad to my apartment at any moment.
Yeah the choice of scale is very weird, why are hackers larger than the FBI? Also doesn't really seem mutually exclusive
Because whoever made this (naively) trusts their government
That's only because the FBI guy and the Oppressive Regime guy have become the same guy
Almost as though the cartoonist just drew a load of their stock characters and then added labels instead of putting thought into it.
"Authoritarian governments" as if the US is isn't exactly fucking that
What’s the ETC or behind it? What else could be worse?
And why isn’t the FBI part of the repressive regimes man?
the cia? oligarch pedophiles?
It's a respectable and necessary "intelligence agency" when we do it, nefarious and unjust spying when they do it. Same old propaganda.
why isn’t the FBI part of the repressive regimes man?
Or the hackers
I guess the difference is that FBI makes Apple install the backdoors, while the rest of the bigger guys just reap the spoils afterwards.
Oh shit not the ETC
Apple seems too small and innocent in this image
my little trillion-dollar corporation can't be this cute!
As far as threats go, I would swap FBI and Hackers.
Always keep in mind that your own state is almost always the group of actors having the most power over you. They are the ones who can hurt you or just make you jump though an infinite amount of hoops without any fear of consequence.
Normal people really can just ignore everyone who is or comes after "Hackers". Focus on your own government. That's where the real risks are.
This illustration is completely wrong.
The man representing hackers isn't in a fur suit.
Furries never hurt anyone. We don't bite hard 🤭🦊
oh hey, its me, E T C
"If you don't have anything to hide, why would you be against this?" -- Americans
The scale is backwards lol.
The world is so vast and complicated, you just cant comprehend what good things your representatives are trying to do for you with your simple, tired, working class, simple brain.
Its hard work running a government, not that you would ever know because youre not in the big club. That's why good things are hard to accomplish.
Your government loves you so much its worked its butt off towards this common goal with other nation states across the world simultaneously. Why arent you grateful?
Now go on back to your increasingly more expensive apartment, you got to get a lot to do before you get to your shift at your 3rd part time job. Oh and the retirement age went up again. Youre welcome.
Should be "scammers" not "hackers".
Build the alternative and use it.
You're either the dictator of your computer or you're not. A government 'forcing' companies to hand over logs describing what happened on their commercial platform means you have not even begun the fight. It's a complete farce.
It's a distraction from the fact all these companies are rolling in capital by manipulating their users--oh, but I want to be manipulated by daddy Apple or daddy Discord, just not daddy national-government. What?
It's a fucking larp. How many of you will agitate against this, but you will still use your fucking Discord/Apple/Google/Meta whatever?
Oh, the government is going to hunt you down for using different software that is non-compliant with legislation? What? In what fantasy land? Wake me up when there's boots on the ground invading people's homes by authorities to check what software I'm running on my computer. It's never going to happen.
EDIT: Sorry, the more I look at this cartoon the more this pisses me off. It's painting Apple as an innocent. It's fucking not. Come on, dear artist, labour more to paint mega-corp dictatorships as benign, aloof, white, middle-class targets. Get fuckt.
Really great comment! I do not agree with the edit, tho. Apple's dude is the one with they on his and, on an Apple device. Doesn't look like Apple is depicted as an innocent agent here, to me
We're already at the "ETC" guy
Etc. could have been fraudsters and/or scammers.
