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If the entire world gets to participate, wouldn't that make everyone a rent seeker?
See that's the point. Having a trusted party is a better solution.
> capitalism working as intended.
Needlessly destroying the planet and making it more expensive for me to drown the inevitability of impending doom by playing AAA video games.
Well ain't that just swell.
Or maybe our western liberal democratic capitalist societies have long degenerated to a point of complete and utter directionlessnes.
Your conspiracy would have the west fucking themselves over.
How about this: a plutocratic elite has accumulated enough capital to be no longer accountable to anyone as almost each and every actor with power in society has been bought out - they don't care about you being able to afford a GPU for your world changing machine learning project for a fair price. They care about themselves and themselves only, and doing so are molding the rest of society into the same myopic egotistical form.
The recent pandemic and the sheer amount of people not willing or able to comply with simplest (masking, vaccinating, etc.) mitigation measures due to what boils down to a kind of malicious dumbness or idiocy driven by mass and social media reminds me of the kind of spirit that allowed the nazi party to come to power in Germany.
This doesn't bode well for ongoing crises like the destruction of the ecological support system of our species' home planet driven by greed and an endless appetite for convenience.
Yes, nvidia and AMD should collude to destroy crypto from a market risk reduction perspective.
They have been moving towards holocaust denial since 2015, actually.
No it hasn't. It would perhaps have if the strategy of history falsification that the far right kept trying since about the 60ies would have worked. These laws were one factor in making sure no such history falsification took place on a broad scale.
That's for Canadian YouTube to decide in accordance with Canadian laws.
Break up YouTube into multiple companies, each only allowed to operate in one country. Then break up YouTube US into at least 5 more companies.
Monopolies are bad, mmmkay?
It's high time facebook, YouTube and Google get broken up like the Bell Corporation was (maybe even avoid some mistakes that were made with that company).
Regarding 3.:
I think it will radicalize some but it will also stop the misinformation of many more people. Overall I think it will lead to lives saved.
I think the problem is less what YouTube is doing here and more that YouTube has this kind of power. If every country had 10 video Websites like Youtube that each had a 10th of the users from that country, and maybe some international users, then one portal taking a total ban-all hard-ass stance on misinformation wouldn't be a big deal.
tldr: Monopolies bad, YouTube bad, facebook bad.
Technologically possible, corporocratically impossible - it would lose the company money.
I don't get this.
Here in Germany for example holocaust denial is illegal.
Assume you are in a country where it's not, say the USA. Assume you slowly witness a rise of naziism that as usual comes with holocaust denial. Now the USA make holocaust denial illegal. Would that make you reconsider if the holocaust really happened?
What the anti-vaxxers and their misinformation are doing has lead to the absolutely unnecessary loss of thousands of lifes. Depriving them of any platform is morally imperative.
Yeah I've been running Wayland on my desktop since quite a while now. There were minor issues when Fedora made the switch to wayland as default, but since at least a year i haven't had a problem that switching to xorg would fix.
Fossil fuels only account for about 70% of global CO2 emissions. Replacing all of them with renewable energy sources will lower emissions but also bring more emissions (e.g. from cement needed to build those power plants). Our current global economic system is pretty much single mindedly focused on exponential GDP growth. As long as this system persists, all that new clean energy will be used to produce more useless disposable gadgets, driving up more emissions from methane (from all the new trash produced with all that energy).
What we need to stop climate change is to lower consumption and to lower production. This is very much possible while also increasing quality of life. Technology can help with getting that into people's head, but a political will has to be there first, and that won't be possible without challenging the current economic system.
How about getting a Librem 5 Purism?