Who could have possibly seen this coming?

Actually, people in the US are bringing guillotines to townhall meetings over data centers

  Please insert identity verification probe.

We need to bring back Unemployed Councils.

Not printing money is also bad for existing money. Deflation is a very bad thing.

It’s supply and demand, and supply creates its own demand. That’s why the US economy grew so fast and became the reserve currency after it got off of the gold standard, it no longer had to be constrained by the limitations of gold and could just print whatever it needed. As long as there is demand, the supply can grow. When the supply grows, demand grows with it.

You can’t just print infinite money, but it’s a lot looser than you seem to think. There’s plenty of money left.

They just hate their citizens and want them to suffer.

The US prints money, that’s not how it works.

Filled with icky worms.

_{Or "for what it’s worth", but I like mine better.}

It’s complicated. Only a few companies can afford to pay out bribes to avoid lawsuits, which means they’d effectively be destroying all of their competition in exchange. Bluesky and Lemmy can’t afford to pay their way out of lawsuits, after all. This would be a handy win for total monopolization of the internet under only a few companies, even if it might also be expensive.

On top of that they were starting down the barrel of FTC for monopoly practices, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some kind of backroom deal with the government here. Maybe if the tech companies allow Section 230 to be repealed and for age-verification laws to pass, the government doesn’t force their companies to be broken up in antitrust actions.

I have no idea what is going to happen.

If the news were that it was being amended to make carve outs for businesses who pay an amount of money, then I would be more inclined to agree.

But the news is that it would be repealed entirely.

Functionally every law has a carve out for businesses who pay an amount of money.

You literally didn’t say it was wrong.

And they aren’t amending it. They’re repealing it. The internet is going to be destroyed, and you’re wishcasting about something irrelevant that isn’t on the table. I think we should probably focus on how absolutely fucking horrible a repeal would be.

What stops them from using this to destroy the fediverse? Every instance will be liable for every single thing that gets hosted on the server. All they need to do is have a patsy post some illegal content and now the instance can be taken to court.

I’d be concerned that any phone company that works with Israel might modify their phones to explode.

I think the AI bubble is actually a deeper, more structural data bubble. There isn’t actually a case for profitability, they’re just doing it out of investor demands and inertia and because That’s Just How We Do Things.

Heaven forbid you talk to anyone outside your echo chamber lol

Wow. You actually believe them when they tell you they want to protect children. That’s fascinating.

Pedophiles are obviously the excuse to gather public support? It’s fascinating that you actually believe them when they say they want to protect children.

I searched for Murena’s policies and found a privacy policy page, and it seems fine?? You give them information for transactions, they don’t sell your information, and you can delete your account which will delete the information they have on you.

What more do you want?

They scanned your message and found you were critical of Israel, a team has been sent to your location to resolve the issue.

The current US government wouldn’t nationalize industry.

Doesn’t that tell you something?

That’s what Google and Apple want you to think, and they’ve spent a lot of money to make sure you keep thinking that way.

Nationalize Google and Apple.

💅

The creation process is private and personal, interfering with it is a violation of that privacy. This is at least privacy adjacent, and I don’t know why you won’t admit that.

You’re tilting at windmills anyway. Judging by the way the community is engaging with the OP, they agree with me.

Yes, any editing done without the author’s consent is a violation of the personal and private creative process. There are obviously degrees of violation, so on the low end there’s other examples you gave like resizing a video or colorizing a photo without permission. Then on the other end we have the fucking nightmare of YouTube changing my face because I’m too ugly.

The point is, you’re defending YouTube for doing something heinous. Do you think this is okay?

YouTube inserting itself into the creative process in an unwanted way is a violation of something that was previously personal and private. The artistic choices a video creator makes are their own, changing them changes the meaning of what they created and violates the authentic connection between the artist and the audience. Imagine if the comments you made on videos were edited to be something else -it’s a violation of our ability to even express ourselves in public. A private decision making process is being taken away from artists.

This isn’t unrelated to privacy.

Someone agreeing to a TOS doesn’t actually eliminate the privacy concerns.

You might have missed the problem.

We have an authentic connection to the author when we engage with their content, the editing and lighting and scripting is a reality they create and share with us.

What YouTube did was mediate the connection between the creator and the viewers. YouTube destroyed the reality that the author was trying to create for their viewers and substituted its own reality instead.

That’s a shockingly low speed limit for pedal assist tbh

ICE is under Homeland Security. Besides, being new doesn’t really make them not the Gestapo. The Gestapo was new at one point as well after all.

It was bad in 2004 too, people just didn’t realize that ICE was the Gestapo back then.

The mask is off. That’s all.

Chelsea* Manning

But, yeah, most people just do not care if they are spied on because they don’t think it will be used for anything besides advertising. Trump is going to wake a lot of people up to the immense power we’ve handed over to our tech overlords.

Well the US should stop underdeveloping other countries if they didn’t want people to flee those countries.

Also, eight hours is a modern invention! Throughout most of human history we slept several times a day, rather than just once.

I’m really liking siestas these days and can’t go back to a single eight hour block.

No, courts are just naturally occuring phenomenon, like the weather or the tides 😌

you can enforce your data rights in rule of law countries

😂

China is not illegally busting down US residents’ doors and killing them lol

Okay but now we aren’t really talking about privacy anymore, are we? We’re talking about the monopolization of social media by a few corporations as we’re siloed into platforms. Bad, for sure, but a different problem.

The election interference is coming from inside the house and privacy is only tangentially related to a larger problem.

I’ll continue to be more worried that my DMs will be used to put me in prison.

Okay, but they can’t literally bust down my door and kill me.

Well, only one of those governments can actually do anything to me. Hint: it’s the one I live under

Monopolies are not going to be broken up. Get real.

I bet they did the math

Did they? Because it seems like everyone else is in a hype bubble and doesn’t give a shit about how much this costs or how much money it makes.