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To: Salman

My daughter had an astute observation. If the government had offered to put a microphone in your house 30 years ago, of course, you would have told them no. And now we are paying for the privilege of a corporation doing the exact same thing.


4 posted on 11/24/2022 9:01:06 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45

Every device has the capability of listening in on you.


9 posted on 11/24/2022 9:13:41 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: bigdaddy45

My daughter had an astute observation. If the government had offered to put a microphone in your house 30 years ago, of course, you would have told them no. And now we are paying for the privilege of a corporation doing the exact same thing.

It’s a brilliant play on human psychology. Tell someone to do something, and they may resist. Tell them they have to pay for something, and especially if the something is presented as a privilege, and people will rush to buy in.


17 posted on 11/24/2022 9:32:28 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: bigdaddy45

Except 30 years ago we all had phones in our house. So really nothing has changed.


19 posted on 11/24/2022 9:40:40 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: bigdaddy45
My daughter had an astute observation. If the government had offered to put a microphone in your house 30 years ago, of course, you would have told them no. And now we are paying for the privilege of a corporation doing the exact same thing.

Well ditto your smart phone. If the government asked us to keep a tracking device on our person 24/7 most of us would have said, "Hell no!"

Now most of us have cell phones on our person, or in close proximity, most of the time - and they get the microphone, plus tracking.

Witness the J6 folks...

20 posted on 11/24/2022 9:42:21 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: bigdaddy45

We have Alexa in a room where we can be heard training our dog.

We also registered our dog with Alexa.

If the Deep State can feed us disinformation we can give it right back to them!


24 posted on 11/24/2022 9:55:24 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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