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1. c0l0+h3[view] [source] 2023-07-26 12:27:24
>>topshe+(OP)
I feel like I have to repeat this, since so much is at stake here, where it is about the preservation of the web as we know it today, at the peril of having it turned into yet another walled garden:

The only way around the dystopia this will lead to is to constantly and relentlessly shame and even harass all those involved in helping create it. The scolding in the issue tracker of that wretched "project" shall flow like a river, until the spirit of those pursuing it breaks, and the effort is disbanded.

And once the corporate hydra has regrown its head, repeat. Hopefully, enough practise makes those fighting the dystopia effective enough to one day topple over sponsoring and enabling organisations as a whole, instead of only their little initiatives leading down that path.

Not a pretty thing, but necessary.

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2. nfw2+zf[view] [source] 2023-07-26 13:24:12
>>c0l0+h3
Tiktok is literally controlled by the CCP. If consumers don't care about that, they aren't going to care about DRM.
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3. anonym+2p[view] [source] 2023-07-26 14:01:12
>>nfw2+zf
Tech-literate folks really should make a concerted effort to move to our own darknet, something like freenet or I2P, to recreate the internet before the advent of mass adoption of smartphones by the public. Forums, IRC, vent/TS, webrings, XHTML 1.0. No WebGL. No Canvas. No WebAssembly. No damn WEI.

Normies can f&$% off and enjoy the data-mined, DRM'd, ad-infested, CCP-propagandized, upload-your-photo-ID-to-post-here, privacy-free dump their illiteracy, careless disregard for harm, and data exhibitionism fetish has allowed the clearnet to turn into.

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4. MSFT_E+Rq[view] [source] 2023-07-26 14:07:17
>>anonym+2p
While I like this idea, starting from the foot of "CCP-propagandized" based on the tiktok service hosted by Oracle in the US is an amazing way to start off on a Nazi infested foot.

Anti-communism and fascism are historically in lock-step. No one is going to use the services if you basically create web4 stormfront.

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5. ddq+cz[view] [source] 2023-07-26 14:40:02
>>MSFT_E+Rq
China is nationalist authoritarian state capitalist, their external propaganda isn’t to spread Marxist ideology, it’s simply anything that helps China and hurts everyone else, same as any nationalism.

“What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.” Network, 1976

Further, free speech must be defended despite the modern liberal tendency to cut off the majority’s noses to spite nazi faces. If you’re gonna fight nazis, fight nazis, don’t throw out fundamental human rights. They know they can taint principles, signs, and symbols with their stench. Don’t give up essential freedoms out of guilt by association. These charlatans have no political theory, no examined ideology. It’s a power struggle and we’ve already ceded too much power.

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