Posted by shscs911 14 hours ago
Not a rhetorical tinfoil question: Does anyone still believe there's some hope for personal freedoms?
as long as such personal freedoms gives users the ability to skirt the profit motives of companies making these devices, there will always be a force to try restrict it.
The internet, as it has been, is quite an anomaly, but inevitably, power that the people have gets usurped one way or another. It's just a matter of time.
It's not an anomaly, it was the data grabbing infrastructure, and now that enough data is vacuumed in from it to train AI, it is now time to turn this dangerously conductive communication network into a control-only one, by all logic of the process and those who funded it all the way.
It's just that few people bother using it. But that number might increase if Android continues it's war against its users.
Sidenote: The poster in that article is insane to me. Imagine advertising yourself as the only alternative. I'd rather vote for an empty seat than for someone who's that arrogant! Then again, I don't really have to imagine it, since there have been quite a few politicians within the last 10 years who have functionally done that same, just without actually saying those words out loud.
I mean it's OK for the crowd here, because amongst us are people who created the technical backends to let these rackets going.
They started with "we love open" and when became virtual monopoly they extort the position :/