Agree with you on IP and I agree it seems to be sadly a minority opinion.

Do it motherfuckers, I dare ya!

Oracle happened. https://www.pcworld.com/article/423300/why-you-should-ditch-openoffice-and-use-the-free-libreoffice-suite.html

Seriously, fuck Oracle with a rusty rebar. They already ruined mysql.

mysql -> MariaDB

OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

Removed by mod

/laughs in de-googled LineageOS.

You’re a dumbass. Stop gaslighting women. /A man

spot on

That fucking piece of shit needs to croak already.

Except it doesn’t have the capability to put out fires, so it just starts them, then declares having put them out and leaves them burning

Damnit that is funny

Now charge western secret service heads with treason and Marie Antoinette them. Because everyone told them this would happen.

There are what now? This planet has 8 billion people, Einstein.

Bullshit to limit this to the US. I have ill will towards global corporations regardless of location.

Asteroid City. Theatre. Weird but entertaining / good.

The laws are designed to allow murdering the poor. That doesn’t make it “not murder”. When you deny live-saving treatment out of profit considerations, that is both premeditated and killing out of greed. There’s two murder criteria right there.

If the laws are designed for the elite, it is very stupid to argue morality based on what’s “lawful” and what is illegal.

The problem with corporate social media is that things can go downhill very quickly - just look at shitter… Imagine youtube got bought by the same useless dipshit who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth and never invented anything…

Otherwise, we’re in full agreement, I guess :)

You misread my comment. I do agree that manipulation is possible in federated systems. What’s not possible is “chat control” / spying on individual communication on a large scale.

You will, and I would - but for every person who’s somewhat qualified to explain that, there will be dozens who aren’t :/ And even for those who are, the children might not listen because … well they’re children and peer pressure is high in school.

I would absolutely favor a complete ban on corporate social media just because it gives billionaire scumbags a direct algorithmic wire into the brains of the most malleable, most vulnerable part of the population. And you can already see it in how young men on average have become more toxic, misogynist and authority loving in Europe & the DS (divided states, get used to the acronym)

Oh, I have to disagree strongly. Precisely because the internet has gotten worse, it’s even more important for children to learn how to navigate it effectively.

Okay, you have a point there. But in a way, that doesn’t refute my point - the opposite of “learning how to navigate it effectively” is letting children have access to it on their own. It would need to be taught in school, by qualified teachers (who don’t exist in sufficient quantity).

The internet is only going to become more relevant in the future.

I am not so sure about this - because I have seen it evolve over the past decades, and as I previously pointed out, it’s become mostly ads, propaganda and bullshit. The only reason people spend more time online is because of the addictive mechanisms in most modern smartphone apps. Me, not using those, I find myself spending less and less time on the internet.

At the same time, I understand how important it is for kids to explore the internet on their own.

No more though. It’s more important that they spend time at the fresh air & play. The internet has become pretty useless outside of wikipedia & social media, and social media has become pretty toxic outside of a few spots (like we can hopefully keep lemmy).

• everything is ridden with ads
• news websites locked behind paywalls
• news websites reporting agenda-driven propaganda
• major email providers auto-classify emails from smaller providers as spam (despite correct SPF entries)
• every good service that is not decentralized, eventually gets hit by enshittification due reap profits

I would absolutely support a 100% social media ban for all centralized networks (corporation controlled). Because they are used not only to damage the brains of children, but those of adults as well (see Eastern German elections). Only federated chat systems / social media should be allowed. But that’s where our fascist overlords have a conflict of interest - they desperately want to see everything we communicate - and chat control (literally, fuck you EU) is not possible in federated networks.