They’re psychopaths. Not completely demented fucking morons.

Sky News AU (not affiliated with the UK) is the closest equivalent to Fox News this decade, since Murdochs fascist state media machine was working so well in the US.

Which is rather ridiculous, because the IDF didn’t need any assistance to make them look bad.

Capitalism guarantees externalities are shouldered by society, as that’s most profitable.

You don’t succeed in business by cleaning up the mess you make.

Yeah but most people are idiots, so…

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I’ll give you a hand… The implication is that you need to be brain damaged to want a toilet cam.

Imagine how much value would have been created if the several hundreds of billion spent on the shitty VR sims went to wages, or taxes, or healthcare.

But no. We should all marvel at the efficiency of the oligarchy!

Have you tried brain damaging yourself? If that fails, repeat until you something or whatever.

Surveillance capitalism just wants to completely destroy all anonymity for data harvesting, propaganda, and control purposes.

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Considering Epstein didn’t kill himself, and literally none of his hundreds/thousands of oligarch-customers have faced any consequences, this pedelephant in the room could very well be what chat control, photo scanning, etc is actually all about.

Parent takes photo of their baby/child in the rudey nudey > custom pedo-developed algorithm flags it as potential child porn > sends image/vid to gov server for “verification” > data gets “hacked” by pedos.

Same system could easily be adapted to stealing everyones private sex pics/vids, as the entire idea is that it’s performed by closed source applications in the background, without the user ever being aware.

And with the way CSAM works, governments could easily insert hashes of ANY files — say a whistleblower steals the un-redacted Epstein files — so OS’s/services would identify everyone who had downloaded that file(s), sending the alarm straight to the secret police’s surveillance system; maybe they could be silenced before they’ve had a chance to tell anyone.

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Sure, mods will always be necessary when it comes to public/untrusted comms, but just like I don’t want my telco or email provider to decide which/when my TRUSTED contacts can contact me, the same is true for the rest of their speech.

You’re analogous to someone in 2013 arguing that the solution to facebooks crimes/corruption/censorship is to migrate to whatsapp…

Jumping from platform to platform, server to server each time is a bandaid solution which is not censorship resistant, especially against some totalitarian oppressor, and benefits hostile actors the most; fracturing groups into smaller and smaller bubbles. A real fix is a solution (e.g. protocol) that enables users to view a single person/entities/orgs comms regardless of what any middleman decides. The users trust should override anyone else’s.

Yep. Benefits hostile actors far more than any user.

What happens when the lunatics own the media and social media? Let them remove all evidence of genocide and corruption? Just accept the insanity and authoritarianism?

Although true, the existence of mods is an attack vector the criminally corrupt will always exploit, and every anti-authoritarian should not oppose these systems because they’re currently exploited by the corrupt.

Fascists are buying up all media and social media explicitly to silence opposition, control the narrative, and propagandize (the thing they claim everyone else is doing to them, while being the most blatantly criminal of perpetrators).

I can’t remember the specific protocol, but the one I saw which was most interesting relies on you subscribing to individuals, and building trust through that “social graph of trust”. It’s best to view it as someone owns a domain and you’re subscribing to their rss feed, except they’re identity is cryptographically verified, and the people they engage with have more weight in your feed than those that don’t… as opposed to whatever some technofascist algorithm, oligarch-beholden journalist or corrupt mod (who may very well be a paid operative) deems valuable or worthy of your attention; basically mimicking the way people build relationships in real life (without third party oversight).

If the USA has taught us anything, it’s that we can always count on Liberals and Conservatives to forget all their differences and display radical bipartisanship in expanding the surveillance state and building big brother for fascism.

Reminder that, when Reddit first published their user stats, a US base was one of the most active locations in the world.

Always assume that governments, oligarchs, and corporations are waging psychological warfare against you.

Wait… You’re telling me that people born into extreme privilege and wealth turn out to be self-aggrandizing, egotistical, sociopaths who drastically over-estimate their own importance and contribution to society?

My world view is shook!

After seeing how government orgs manage tech projects from the inside in late stage capitalism I’ll tell you what happened.

Some criminally corrupt parasite in the political class was wowed by bribes and cocaine from the sales teams of the big 4, who assured them they can do it cheaper, faster, better with 100 offshore Indians. Most of the sub-contractors of sub-contractors working on the project were just warm bodies without the skills or experience, requiring the handful of onshore staff to spend 100% of their time in meetings, fighting fires, hand holding incompetent managers and juniors, doing hundreds of hours of overtime, severely impacting their physical Ave mental health.

Meanwhile a team of 20 onshore staff would have done it cheaper, faster, better 90% of the time.

Listen, guys. The oligarchy urgently needs to implement a totalitarian fascist dictatorship before automation renders billions of people unemployable.

You understand, right? They need to surveil everyone 24/7, otherwise the 99% might successfully organise a revolt and redistribute the collective output of human civilisation before we achieve GAI, or have produced armies of killbots capable of genociding the masses who are incapable of providing any value to capitalism.

There really isn’t any alternative. It’s their god given right to own all matter, space, and time in the universe, and — most unfortunately — you can’t exist without consuming or occupying an infinitesimally small microcosm of it.

You’re getting downvoted because your hot take is referring to solutions that would legitimately tackle the housing crisis, and put downward pressure on prices, as “extremist”.

No workers in developed “democracies” have had any significant improvement in mobility for several decades. Forcing every future population into progressively new heights of omnipresent housing and economic insecurity is fucking “extremist”, and if you keep making people’s lives worse you’re guaranteed to spawn some dangerous “extremists”… I’m talking the revolutionary kind, who will be far more destructive and far less forgiving in their hot takes on wealth redistribution.