If I had an extensive comment history there, I would adjust a portion of my highest rated contributions (or any contributions most likely to be read) by rearranging a few words in sentences. A reader can learn to filter out ‘[Comment deleted]’ whereas having to re-read a sentence multiple times to ascertain meaning gets old quickly.
‘You wouldn’t want to resort tactics to those, because ahd I had no fear government just would taken revenge you on out on’
There are no specific laws in place to deter big tech from their behaviour, nor its there a dedicated independent body with the power to investigate patterns of censorship
Any disinterested investigation led by a government arm will show that much of the activity is done at the behest of government. You test out new control schemes on marginlized groups first, then tweak, before rollout to genpop. That’s the standard template.
The solution is never more grey suits with KPIs and more legislation (unless rights are being consitutionally enshrined). The solution is to get smaller and more distributed.
yes
I dunno, I may forget :O
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Yes it is, that’s what I’m getting at - independent output’s share of total output increasing significantly
You don’t need the law to do that, you need a weekend of brushing up on router operation
Responses ITT have focused on legal and technical roadblocks. But if you can imagine a world where cultural production is even slightly less consolidated and corporate, where we start doing more of it for ourselves and our social circles, a cultural roadblock starts to emerge. How do I copy illicitly if the output is specialized and uniquely calibrated to the personal tastes of a hyper-small audience? Another way of asking the question might be: if mass markets don’t mean much anymore and it’s easy to make and propagate things ourselves, does piracy still exist? Or do we recognize that copying is a fundamental mechanism of culture, and there’s no longer any point in encumbering it for the sake of the profit motive?
I think the remarks of Denuvo hardly mattering for Ubisoft titles because they’re shitty games to start with, or jokes about Disney succeeding in making a film that will never get pirated (Snow White), start to get at this question
It wouldn’t surprise me if ‘fatphobia’ turned out to be a psyop, like the corporate-funded research into nutrition whose aim is to plant a particular meme in the public conscience (‘don’t give up soda kids, just exercise to lose all that weight!’)
50 years of high-fructose food ubiquity doesn’t negate millennia of evolutionary conditioning that expects us to be on foot most of the day, consuming high protein diets and covering 10+km distances
The notion that we can out-social engineer physical reality is a doggedly persistent one
which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia
State/corps: Mission accomplished
I would love a politician to try explain why they were so committed to killing vaping
Narrator: The main reason was ego
I suspect the high tax no longer has much of a harm reduction/uptake suppression utility, and that the Aus government secretly knows this, but they are hopelessly addicted to the revenue so will enact overbearing new laws to protect the income stream.
The reasonble approach is to wean nicotine users off black market product by removing the price disparities. The only way to do that is by accepting a much lower tax intake than the current arbitrary, punitive one (perhaps VAT * 1.5 or 2?)
I remember the Australian government crowing about their world-first plain packaging initiative many years ago. Talk about fighting the last war lol
What you want is basically a recipe for the web turning into an exclusively corporate wasteland. Lack of installation freedom doesn’t provide security from anything when the A/G app stores are already full of malware. Real security - security for users - lies in our ability to exercise choice - to use a FOSS app, or to pay conventionally via the web instead of having to put up with creepy opaque vendor portals (or worse, an app)
Phones are generic computing devices. We must able to operate and maintain them however we wish.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590466 https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/
tldr OP shouldn’t be posting Forbes articles
Berman’s fine.
You’re a bit mean sometimes, Tenny
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People get proccupied with emulating YT, which is indeed cost prohibitive. But that response assumes one is emulating all of it. What about only pursuing sections of it to cater to particular audiences? Serving 100% of YT’s video might be too much even for Amazon (for example) but what about 1%?
Why couldn’t Amazon host Booktube? And the manga/anime enthusiasts and other varietes of weebs to go along with them? They already own ebook retail. A VOD service to chip off some of YT’s viewership would be a more productive investment than The Rings of Power…
A YT competitor needs a bit of scale, sure, but not as much as YT itself. A fraction will do.
Hawke is Cloudflared
A gram of convenience for a ton of privacy :(
Collier is clearly bright, but she also loves the sound of her own voice (granted, most YTers are in the same basket). Her tendency toward repetition gets tiring when 15-minute arguments become 40-minute videos.