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by Eddy_Viscosity2 58 days ago
What can we do about it? The major tech firms have nearly all the power here, including quite obviously full capture of government (not just here but other countries as well).
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MSFT_Edging 58 days ago
Internet wide coordinated DDOS?

Basically a mass-protest via network packets. Could we argue sending packets to a server is essentially a form of protest protected by speech similar to a public gathering?

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account42 53 days ago
In this particular case, you could replace your OS with one where you are actually the owner.
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mapt 57 days ago
On your tongue: "what exactly can we do?"

On theirs: "Just for the sake of making the numbers work, have you tried putting in 'kill all the poor'?". https://youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE

I am increasingly coming to recognize proceduralist liberalism as a suicide pact.

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