Industry wants to place computer “solutions” between you and the world around you to the maximum extent possible. Data is money.

Just part of a larger trend of trying to digitize things that should never be digital.

But the claim that the “Biden administration” has “abused these powers in the past” to “censor conservatives” is a myth. It’s a myth made up by the MAGA world.

Well, not wrong technically. It is entities like Google abusing their position as arbiters of truth (for normies) to censor on behalf of their current favorite political party.

Those harms include higher costs of goods, less privacy, and increasingly lower-quality ads that frequently bombard their screens with products nobody wants.

Pretending that somehow, if only the ads were “moar relevant!”, that they would be any less of an assault.

I’ll just continue blocking as I always do.

Google’s antitrust drama is just a popcorn side show to me.

I’m ashamed to say I used to work for one. How do you like having licenses to use your printer? I might have enjoyed it even if only I were a sadistic personality type.

The decline is all around us.

Apparently, now wifi is synonymous with internet service.

Part of the problem is that people who grew up on phones and tablets are now old enough to start entering the tech industry as UI developers.

Not aggregating adolescents and children all into one place every day would be a good place to start.

Let me guess, $CURRENT_YEAR Tomogatchi release is going to involve

• Tethered, always online connectivity to a master server
• Microtransactions
• Ads
• Online accounts
• Boost purchases intended to reduce grind
• Full telemetry to hoover up user behavior & location data to sell to ad brokers

If you think I’m being hyperbolic, just look at what they did to the revived Sony Aibo dog.

Nobody above the 95 IQ range owns or enjoys loud vehicles.

I throw small to medium sized rocks at parked cars because they leave the types of damage that could plausibly just have happened from daily driving. It’s a great way to drive car owners slowly insane and to further the agenda of the Fuck Cars community.

Why are we pretending that public schools are the only possible source of information about safe sex? Anyone making such a big decision will have hopefully done their research beforehand. And if not, I can hardly feel sorry for them.

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Had to draft that one a few times?

My bullet proof vest doesn’t work unless you’re wearing a bullet proof vest too!

I always use hard Rs, don’t you worry.

It’s really difficult. You have to draft legislation, deliberate over it with room full of bureaucrats, hope and wait for it to pass sigh good session, guys, now where to for lunch?!

Meanwhile, the decentralized solution is to refrain from recreational sex. It’s super easy to do! I use Arch btw.

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I’ve hit that blockade before. Pushing yt-dlp over Tor usually does the trick.

I think you and I have different thresholds for what counts as ‘not restricting the user’.

I take one and throw it back at them

I make it a rule for myself to not pass credentials (maintain an account) on any service which is MITM’d by cloudflare. I’ve lost several accounts to sites moving behind cloudflare in this way.

Additionally, I have an extreme allergy to web tracking and cloudflare is positioned uniquely to be a point of central data aggregation, particularly about browsing habits and adtech shadow profile building.

Even some fedi instances have infested themselves with cloudflare.