An analysis of Twitter's especially devious method of shadow banning, throttling - now officially known as "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach". Imagine what the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany would have done with this kind of technology? Actually we don't have to imagine: it's called the Social Credit System in Communist China, and the Online Safety Act in Communist Britain.
Nb. even though Elon Musk is clearly a totalitarian dictator in her role of CEO of Twitter/X, her support for freedom of speech is far greater than that of the CEOs of other similar (large) social networks. She also eliminated child porn, whereas the previous dictatorship repeatedly refused to.
Copyright Law will soon be obsolete, but before we abolish it entirely, hopefully we will have a balanced approach instead of the tyranny that we have now. Printed works should have a maximum of about 60 years before becoming public domain, and electronic ones only 30. This would encourage the music, TV and movie industries to rerelease many of their products in maximum quality, over the internet, for all time.
Microsoft Windows has always been deeply technically flawed, it's just that users didn't always notice. What's happening now is that Microsoft has finally become fatally corrupt, just as any monopoly must do eventually.
Fortunately and unfortunately, capitalist competition doesn't work with software, so open source is the only solution. Everyone in the world must use Linux, since it's the most open-source operating system - with plenty of competition within its community.
Yet again we observe the rise of "benign dictatorships": groups of people who, for whatever reasons, consider themselves infallible. The solution to this latest form of totalitarianism is to totally reject the Software industry, in favour of open-source and distributed social networking (eg. my system, Goldstein :) ).
Western civilisation is slowly becoming fully totalitarian, using blanket surveillance, but more so the dedicated lies of the Media and Academia, and especially the increasing amount of psychological time between elections.
What so many of the joyless members of Academia and the Media fail to recognise is that all "violent" computer games are satires of real violence. This is why they are cathartic and inspire honesty and sanity (eg. GamerGate).
Why would "journalists" who target computing be any less corrupt than the mainstream ones?
The number one danger about the many heinous violations of our privacy is that there's no good reason to believe that our spy agencies have good enough security to have prevented China, Russia, etc, from stealing all their greatest secrets.
Since computer games are one of the least serious uses of computer technology, the gaming industry is free to perpetrate levels of totalitarianism that many other software corporations wouldn't dare to - yet.
Apple is allowed to operate and sell it's products in Communist China for one likely reason: it's a devious totalitarian corporation that is actively spying for the Chinese regime, all over the world.
If I weren't so honest, I'd have plenty to hide - from the insane and corrupt, who threaten to judge us all using various religions and politics.
As an individual with a criminal mindset (ie. who believes in justice, not necessarily the law), I prefer to use an Android phone running Graphene OS.
Fortunately I've never been tempted to rewrite any project I've written. The Rust programming language is a cult aimed at destroying open source, for the benefit of many blood sucking corporations.
Dave neglected to mention the solution to new operating systems and applications being slower than older ones: open-source.
Copyright Law is nowadays mostly unnecessary, and a form of corporatist welfare and tyranny. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing - which it never was anyway.
This video is a strong argument for widespread use of open-source, and for piracy of all forms of media.
This is one of the main reasons why I don't own a TV. Almost all TV programs I watch are pirated and watched on my Linux PC.
The operating system I use is called Linux, not "GNU/Linux". You can't have an operating system with a slash in the name, nor can you name it after an ugly prey species, nor use a recursive acronym.
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