The point is to get laws passed in the US that create a moat for them as businesses. They don’t care about competing with China, they care about competing with the next YC cohort.

“Minor by default” is not a shift in how companies treat minors online, it’s a shift in how they treat everyone online.

Throughout history we’ve generally moved towards ever more ephemeral storage media. Stone tablets > clay > paper > etched vinyl > magnetic tape > hard disks > solid state memory, and a bunch more I’m not remembering or not aware of (and there are some that have made extremely long lives their purpose, but they’re not generally in common use, see the etched gold records in Voyager I).

Arguably, what actually survives is only what a civilization values enough to go back and put into its longer lifespan storage media, it’s only really in the modern era of mass-production and mass-media that the desire to preserve everything has popped up.

I’m very nostalgia-driven, and I still consume a lot of the media I did as a kid, but my Jellyfin and Kavita servers aren’t meant to represent things I believe should be preserved for others, just for myself.

I’ve visited the Internet Archive several times (I used to live on 3rd and California, so it was a 5 minute walk), but I think their original purpose of especially preserving the “old internet” blogs and forums and whatnot has somewhat lost its purpose now. It doesn’t archive the mediums where most internet interaction takes place now, like Discord, and it hasn’t for a while (even twitter in its heyday wasn’t being backed up unless you manually requested a tweet be saved).

There are micro-cultures that absolutely are going to disappear entirely from our cultural record once they become defunct, but that’s always been true, and I don’t think the kinds of cultural records this article is about are really part of our larger “culture” in a meaningful way. MTV News? Gawker? How about SubSim.com and NoMutantsAllowed (2 game-specific forums I’m part of)? Does our proverbial Library of Alexandria really need to remember those existed?

More like, they need you to believe it’s dangerous so they have another thing for the police state to take away your rights to “protect” you from.

Unironically, yes.

I’m glad they’re calling them vigilantes, because a vigilante is someone who punishes crimes outside the bounds of the law. Good to see media acknowledging that Flock cameras are criminal.

They’re using his stage appearances at progressive campaign events to attack progressive candidates, but in order for those attacks to work they have to make him more well known among no-brain moderates who don’t know anything but what they’re spoonfed.

Stage 1: You pay for it, it is the product

Stage 2: It is free, you are the product (enshittification)

Stage 3: You pay for it, you are the product (late-stage enshittification)

How old are you? Because no, there is no key to revoke for a UMD. There is no “banning” discs from a PSP.

The fact you apparently are so young you aren’t aware things used to be different, is proving the point here.

And more importantly, no the license was not the same; the physical disc fell under what is called the First Sale Doctrine:

The first sale doctrine is a legal principle codified in U.S. copyright law at 17 U.S.C. § 109. It states that once a copyright owner sells or gives away a physical copy of a work, their control over the distribution of that specific copy ends.

When companies began to use license keys for instance as a backdoor route to bypass it, it was a big legal deal.

I think you’re confusing copyright ownership, which was always the same (since video games have existed, that is), with end user licenses, the nature of which are very different now.

No, it’s literally not. Sony can take away your license for a digital game for any or no reason. They cannot take away your license for the physical good outside of very specific cases (and they will require a court order to do it, unlike revoking a digital license).

Imagine living somewhere that brings suits against companies for hurting workers, without the workers themselves needing to pay exorbitant fees to bring a class action.

Not in this way. I can literally still play my UMD games on my old PSP, and Sony can’t do shit about it.

“I’ll maybe hurt you a little less, and I’ll keep doing the bad thing” isn’t a compromise; a compromise has to benefit both sides, and not being harmed is just the default expectation, not a benefit.

“How’s the book?”

“What’s it about?”

“Are you hungry?”

Gets to this face every time!

Here we go boiiiiiis!

This is why I have such a hard time trusting any “only war is the class war” pusher. Pretending that all will be well if we give one group what they want reeks of a desire for power rather than a desire for liberation, and you know that those people are not going to either 1) share any power they gain with people they worked with to get that power, who have a different idea of what the post-revolution society should look like (e.g. the USSR banning other Socialist factions), or 2) actually ensure the society they build does not recreate the same social issues (specifically, the ones that didn’t affect them personally).

WRT the tech backlash, I’ve been pushing myself to have a fully offline-capable tech ecosystem. I’ve been sharing that (though it’s seen only marginal adoption) with my family, who are long-distance, and I’ve been really really happy with how much I find myself actually using it versus using ‘online’ media. I don’t know if that fits into the models of interaction that the movements mentioned in the article are advocating, though, or if they’re going more “use tech less”, rather than “use tech that serves Capital less”.

I’m not telling anyone else to do this; it’s definitely my version of reclaiming time and money and attention from Big Tech, but I guarantee that if you find a way to decouple from a major corporate-run platform you rely on, you will realize just how unenjoyable those platforms are.

I think that’s what I said. xD

I feel like there’s a parallel here to Trumpers rationalizing everything he says; I think the simple reality is that the US Jewish establishment, at certainly the institutional level, is okay with what Israel is doing but can’t admit that.

Ah, it pulled a Christopher Nolan!

Yes, self-hosting and small-group AI hosting needs to be legal, accessible, and feasible.

Despite the pessimistic (and largely technically incorrect) takes here, the internet is actually an incredible feat of human collaboration; the most distributed, interconnected, democratized, and resilient communication system ever built.

You’d hope that Lemmy users, being people who’ve mostly fled the big social media sites with at very least some marginal technical cost to themselves, wouldn’t be pulling a millennial version of the boomer “AOL == The Internet” thing by treating FAANG’s sites as the internet, but alas.