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		loeber on July 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is there no government-built social media? Would you prefer to trust a company in a foreign country that isn't beholden to your country's laws? What if it were open-source software, e.g. like farcaster.xyz, with some level of cryptographic tamper-proof assurances?

Cthulhu_ on July 5, 2023 [–]

I don't; FISA courts & Snowden's revelations have basically exposed facts that the US government agencies have open back doors to all data in the big tech companies.

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