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by Havoc 119 days ago
> There is no reason people have to tolerate a technology that is destructive to society,

All evidence to the contrary. Aside from the French occasionally burning down some cars the western populations (me unfortunately included) have become remarkably relaxed about such things.

Even very extreme examples like blatant refusal by government to investigate absolutely horrific stuff like Epstein gets at most some mildly upset TikTok reels

Add some aggressive lobbying by big tech and perhaps a sprinkle of palantir population monitoring and I don’t think we’ll see a refusal to tolerate at scale

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There's a big difference between the Epstein files and 50% of your voters losing their jobs and being unable to find another one at similar pay-rates.

One of those is an annoyance, the other is full blown revolution territory.