ublock is ubiquitous enough that it should be fine (comes pre-installed on Librewolf, Mullvad Browser, Ironfox, etc)

problem is most smart people are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to work for big tech. If open source can start paying developers the same then we’ll start to see competition

aside from his own “authority” though, Tom Morello gives no argument aside from “it’s obvious”. So not a great argument from them either

archive.is is the one with the horrible new google captcha right? (the one that requires phone scan)

Difficulty can make a big difference. If uploaders have to start making bootleg recordings using camcorders, cleaning up recording artifacts and lighting/reflections from the recording environment and fixing lens distortion etc, all to end up with a mediocre bootleg recording…then I can guarantee you piracy will become extremely rare.

Popular movies might get the attention and work needed. But good luck for random Youtube videos.

If we just look at browsers:

• Chrome: funded by Google, plenty of fascist moves like making deals with Israel
• Mozilla: funded by Google and promotes Google as search engine, so same deal
• Ladybird: https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1966456391146606806

Plenty of big companies have supported fascists in one way or another

Imo almost all of marketing can be considered dark patterns. And when your competition uses dark patterns, if you don’t use it you simply don’t gain users.

I’m reminded of a Veritasium video on clickbait (too lazy to link it right now but should be easy to find). They talk about how there’s a balance between marketing (and furthermore, manipulative marketing) and reach. If you believe the user will benefit from your service, then maybe it’s worth a bit of manipulative marketing, just to get them to enter the door. It’s a tricky balance.

The study talks about giving money to people after prison. It doesn’t give any evidence that the prison method can be skipped. It might make prison cheaper, since lowering recidivism means less inmates which means less cost. But it doesn’t replace prison.

My comment was saying that telepathics could still benefit from local processing and compression. Not that they must use those processes. I’m refuting the comic’s implication that telepathics would not have “consciousness”. Though your comment was interesting nonetheless!

Yes but I’m saying the tech could get more advanced and locked down, like all DRM tech has been progressing

They care about privacy and security, not marketing. They probably hate that they have to do marketing in the first place. It’s honestly relatable.

what’s a left wing mistake that they might get called out for?

Can’t tell if your talking about the (human) Proton marketer responding on reddit, or the (AI) Claude and Opus 🙃

why is this comment so buried. An official response should be the top comment, and as of writing this only has 2 upvotes

In capitalism, the consumer need only care about two things: the product, and the price. This makes it easy for consumers to compare products and prices, and pick the best “bang for the buck”. This fuels competition, which in turn, incentivizes production efficiency.

Sometimes externalities are factored in. For example carbon taxes. But these are simply factored into the price, so the consumer can still compare products and prices like before.

This “commodity fetishism” that Marx complains about, is exactly what makes capitalist economies so effective and efficient.

Afaik under the current system, rehabilitation is already one of the goals of prison (akin to parents giving their kids time out or grounding them in their room). I’m sure it’s questionable how effective it is. Sure is cheaper than other rehabilitation methods though.

I’m sure in the future they’ll have a firmware update system for rotating their keys if they’ve been leaked. And if you try to keep your TV offline to prevent the key rotation, they’ll still rotate the encryption key for the stream (maybe wait a year for most people to receive the firmware update), and your offline TV won’t be able to decode the stream anymore

then that compression would be their “consciousness”

I guess I should have specified “guilty” prisoners to be more in line with the quote

monkey paw curls

due to the injustice stated in the post, 10 random prisoners will be released