• @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    86 months ago

    It’s not a whataboutism when that’s the other choice. This isn’t out of left field. I can buy Chinese data scraping, Japanese data scraping, Korean data scraping, German data scraping, or American data scraping.

    Right now Germany actually wins that contest because GDPR just might have an impact.

    A whataboutism would be me talking about American labor practices in farming. Not great, but also not relevant.

    • Jojo, Lady of the West
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      36 months ago

      I agree. If this were actually addressing the problem in question (bad faith actors harvesting data) then sure, but it isn’t really because the other options are still suffering from the same problem. If anything, this entire discussion is a whataboutism to avoid talking about how more electric cars lets us phase out the ice ones.

      • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        26 months ago

        I wasn’t going to go there because projection is, unfortunately, very effective at making the other party look immature when they correctly call you on it. But yes the entire discussion of data harvesting is a whataboutism. It’s not relevant unless someone stops doing it.