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Breaking the grip of anti-circumvention laws, even if we do it all together, is probably not possible until we have functioning alternatives to the US giants in place, particularly in financial services, but it's still a great goal.
The US may have expropriated Tiktok's US revenues, but can US tech corporations continue to grow and thrive without using most of the rest of the world as it's colonies?
This is a war and we should not be shy about wanting to win.
It is so annoying. Reading is so much faster than video and comprehension from reading is much better, too.
If you can write a script for a video, you can at least post it with your video.
People who started out in the boom years before the Reagan/Thatcher reaction, when taxes on the rich prevented the emergence of billionaires and there was funding for social goods and services, have lost perspective. It's the baseline fallacy: they just assume what they had is normal.
And admitting things are different now would mean acknowledging that all the reactionary tax cuts and roll-backs of social benefits they voted for were at the expense of others. It would mean they were selfish. Not intentionally, of course: but they bought the BS.
@atomicpoet Even people who are normally sensible enough to distrust psychics will trust ChatGPT — because it’s more ‘neutral’ or ‘the future’ or something — but it’s the same predictability process.
A person perceives what they want to believe and disregards the rest. (To paraphrase Paul Simon.)