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Hey, if it makes you feel any better it's not just the US. The middle east is full of surveillance states, and now european countries want a piece of the pie and are now trying to surveil their population as much as possible.
It's a depressing truth, but there's some solidarity that our struggle is one.
Luckily, we have alternatives.
There is an entire ecosystem of software that specifically rejects corporate, centralized, ownership. Self-hosting, while not for everyone, lets you largely stay away from these platforms that are being used to spy on you.