Look at the funding graph, the conservatives came to power and are working hard to destroy it to enable the corporate health provider you have in the US, so this is the result of them trying to move us to your style of private health care.

I doubt many people would be able to afford that shit in the UK, nation is getting poorer thanks to the conservatives who had power for 12 years.

Specifically wanted to highlight this graph, real terms underspend and no wonder we are in a crisis with Nurses striking and others considering it too.

I believe it was U-A-E, dubs is the capital of this kinda of thing in that region.

I would be worried using any public forums when living in those countries, they are heavily invested in most social media platforms and I am certain they can get data on any users when they request it, it’s regulatory requirement in most countries to comply, just make up some reason and you get your data, I am sure Elon doesn’t want to upset his Saudi backers

The spyware tools available to these despots from immoral companies are plenty, it’s a lucrative industry that’s growing, here are some that got exposed but I suspect many more are incognito.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(spyware_company)

That is all before you get into the investment they’ve made into developing local industries to do this, M-B-S is certainly tech savvy and uses it to maintain his grip on power, it was said that Jamal was meticulously tracked by Pegasus, along with other activists, too many people don’t understand the dangers of the tech they willingly carry in their pockets.

Cyber is the new battleground and it’s too easy to fall victim.

Saddened that the biggest players lock down access for users to even check if they have been compromised in the name of money, at least on PCs you could take some precautions, how do trust your iPhone or Android when the actual criminals have a marketplace to bypass all that “security” when they want.

The threat of new variants has increased now that Covid has a billion possible new hosts, it’s a reasonable precaution to protect their citizens, there is no need to call it paranoia just because you disagree, plenty of people are still dying from it around the world.

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