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Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by dwarksidle on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:04PM (#45019653)
Governments are scurred the internet has made everyone realize their governments are crap, their history is gibberish, and it's all being used to screw the next generation. So 60+ year olds are falling back on old tropes

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

Yanking the leash of the proletariat

TikTok is "brain rot" even though the real economy runs on physical statistics, the semantics have to be recognizable to the elders, or it's not democratic so they will force the semantics to be regurgitated as-if they are religious catechism.

Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s... by idiotsecant on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:37PM (#45021686)
The Internet is the most powerful propaganda distributing system that humanity has ever come up with. Autocracies love the Internet, or at least the ones that see the writing on the wall. We have the sum total knowledge of the entire human race within a few clicks and we mostly use it to find videos to be mad at. We are our own jailors.