Whoever commands the killbots will genocide the 99% and rule humanity, forevermore… until whenever general AI is achieved and the remaining humans are eliminated; they will have proven they can’t be trusted.

It’s every billionaire and the corporations they own, and probably a majority of people with 50+ million. Basically the 0.01%.

Can’t hold corporations accountable for their own actions — ecocide, manslaughter, fraud, wage theft — but we can hold them liable for user actions?

They will use it as another excuse to damage education.

If anyone gets an exemption it defeats the point.

Loopholes for the wealthy is the point of most tax law.

Did whomever started this project not understand that Harvard was founded in 1636, and the average birth rate was greater than 5 until the 20th century, so they were looking at many thousands of descendants at a bare minimum?

Perhaps they should have gone to Stanford?

I understood that reference

Lol. The only thing this setting does is hide the information from the user. Google, or a thousand other data brokers (many probably created by Google for this purpose) still retain that data indefinitely.

100%. Half the time I get blocked due to VPN or whatever I just close the tab and go with my life. The rest of the time I try all known workarounds. If those fail, I just go with my life.

My hatred for monopolisation and enshittification is stronger than my desire to watch content on any platform.

Just like he did with the eggs!

I guarantee you none of your data is actually deleted. Experian is a surveillance capitalism data broker. They’re selling both the virus and the snake oil to “cure” it.

E-voting across the US has been a continuous attack vector of covert election fraud for over 2 decades, and in all that time nothing was done to harden them to any legitimate degree.

The oligarchy wanted Trump, and they’ve been subverting democracy longer than all of us have been alive. The SC was already used to steal the presidential election for Bush ffs.

There are at least 70 million weapons-grade mentally-ill people in the USA, radicalized and stupified with decades of psychological warfare.

Have they removed that dogshit crypto they added a few years ago? Haven’t donated since.

Signal was never more than a stepping stone anyway. Centralised privacy services, that can be taken down by any government, are doomed to fail under surveillance capitalfascism.

So you’re saying that they can scan the MAC addresses of devices in airplane mode, a setting designed to not receive or transmit any comms?

Do you have any evidence for these claims, because that is something security researchers could very easily prove?

military grade contractors that sell intel to law enforcement.

So salesmen, who sell products? Like all salespeople they likely promise the world, and like all consultants, they likely advise based on the average/lowest common denominator. So yeah, if you are completely tech illiterate, don’t think you can outsmart people on tech literacy…

A cheap af old Android setup as new, with a new/no account, and no sim would probably be better for the majority. A Go pro + sd card are $100+, while a used android can be had for $50. Half the protesters probably already have one sitting in a drawer.

If it’s kept in airplane mode and only used for the most basic shit like offline maps, recording audio or video, notes, etc, I don’t see how it’d be much of a threat. Ideally you’d want to only connect it to coffee shop wifi and restore it to an old backup after every protest (if you can do offline), but if it’s never used for PII, contacts/comms, or any internet services, they can’t get much from it.

At the end of the day, if they really want to identify protesters they will. You can’t expect anonymity at a protest in 2025. Just don’t make it easy for the Gestapo.

Only for the paying customers, apparently. Crime pays, yarrr!

This is propaganda to make investors believe they’ve achieved intelligence, or are on the verge of it. It’s bullshit, and legally it should be considered securities fraud.

Half the comments on HN these days feel like tech-broligarch propaganda.

Of course it’s not crazy. The CEO went all in on being a fascist piece of shit, and brazenly open drug addiction, which has directly damaged the assets of all of his businesses, their customers assets, and the entire brands.

If, within the next 5 years, Elon isn’t billions in debt and destitute, that’s how you know we all live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracies”.