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#37 I had an Alexa echo (the newer round one with the clock) in my bedroom that I was using as an alarm clock. I watched a documentary on The Surveillance Economy and before it was over, had dug up my 1990 Sony Dream Machine and relocated the Echo to my shed in the back yard. My reasoning previously was, "no one is talking much" in around my bedroom but now knowing that it's likely picking up conversations in the hall, knowing what I'm my TV is doing, listening in on my work from home meetings in the next room, etc. I decided enough was enough. I have two phones - one I used for work (I pay for that one) and another for personal. I had already downgraded the home phone to an LG flip classic. On Sunday I ordered a Kyocera Duramax XV flip phone from Verizon for my work uses. I also canceled my Apple Watch cell account on Sunday and I'm now wearing my old Casio G Shock. I'm not leaving the house with a smart phone ever again unless it has no sim, is wifi only (no cell service) and is using VPN. These big tech overlords will only get away with destroying America and our freedoms IF WE LET THEM. I've also started using RSS news feeds a while back rather than opening apps on my tablet. My car has GPS; that should be enough. Canceled Siriux XM for the car in January. Little by little, I'm detaching the strings. I can't get the wife or son to detach from their connections though I can tell you my kid never uses Facebook and the wife hates it now and only occasionally looks at it. Big tech has created a monster and I don't think they realize yet how people despise them. The Lilliputians are surrounded the giant with tiny ropes. I wonder how far down the line it will go before enough Lilliputians grab a rope before it all starts to come undone? At that point, I expect the government and corporations to force us to use smartphones to do simple every day tasks to keep the fiefdom and the spy apparatus alive. "Save the AI to save AMERICA!"
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