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Re:I built ByteDance's censorship machine by sudosysgen on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:20PM (#26198180)
That's simply not profitable. We're a society driven by the profit motive. There is a vanishingly small amount of profit to be made there.
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Re:I built ByteDance's censorship machine by gnarbarian on Friday February 19, 2021 @06:18PM (#26199369)
Email itself isn't profitable either, but we pay for things that help us with it like spam blocking and outlook
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Re:I built ByteDance's censorship machine by sudosysgen on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:20PM (#26199912)
Sure, but email didn't have to compete with anything before it. And even then today email has turned into a surveillance nightmare, not the ideal of the comment above.
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Re:I built ByteDance's censorship machine by cwkoss on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:29PM (#26243829)
Email competed with mail and fax and effectively won.
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