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Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over' by GCHQ using activation programs (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] degen@midwest.social 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Our ability to think twice about an ongoing genocide is exactly the privilege being pointed out.

This comment makes me think you might not be aware of that, but I get you probably feel attacked by people's reactions. Just know that everyone giving backlash is thinking that if you were well informed on the matter, you would think very differently.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 days ago

I guess, you may be right. In my defense, I have mentioned in all my comments that I am not well informed.