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Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by javajosh on Sunday April 30, 2023 @08:01AM (#35761772)
I wish HN would add a new reply button, "It's hopeless and people don't care and its only going to get worse" because it would save a great deal of time for everyone involved.
Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by creativenolo on Sunday April 30, 2023 @08:39AM (#35762001)
Maybe instead of reply people should just submit and comply?
Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by moffkalast on Sunday April 30, 2023 @09:46AM (#35762486)
Well the ubiquity of it doesn't make it any less true.
Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by javajosh on Sunday April 30, 2023 @12:54PM (#35764377)
It's never been less true. Humans have never been more capable of coherent action, and this fact has not been lost on the sociopathic no-upper-limit-to-greed manipulator types who've done well in this nascient internet with its aging, nostalgic noobs. The modern zeitgeist is dominated by the heat from a thousand battles happening in the info-sphere, fought by PR mercenaries and state-sponsored labs duking it out. They must win their battle because that is what they are paid to do, and saying the word "externality" is a good way to get fired.

But. If we can act coherently on one way, we can do so in another, and I take great hope in that fact.

Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by pauby on Monday May 01, 2023 @04:17AM (#35770275)
This sounds like a great intro to a book. I'm hooked.
Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by brokenmachine on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:39AM (#35798072)
I mean, the top 1% richest is somehow able to pocket nearly twice as much wealth as the other 99% of population of the world.

Money is power, at least until people are fairly represented...

So I'm not so optimistic.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly...