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Every single mainstream digital platform on the internet has gone to shit. Streaming, shopping, video/music platforms, social media, creative tools, web search, you name it. I'm tired of it.
The relentless pursuit of profit and growth ruins absolutely everything it touches. Capitalist rot.
Yes, but this particular abusive feature is a result of misguided legislation, not profit-seeking.
That's usually the same thing with a different color of lube.
I'm getting real tired of all this capitalist apologism, as though they don't own our political class and aren't directly behind both de-anonimization and anti-encryption leglislation.
All you have to do is follow the fucking money and power behind surveillance capitalism.
You guys are getting lube??
I just saw the guy from that meme in death of a unicorn.
Not really significant I just felt like sharing
Respectfully, they're more like happy bedfellows with overlapping agendas but uniquely different end goals. They appear to be the same, because they cooperate often.
I think at this point we should stop calling things like this misguided. They aren't.
It is a global effort by the ultra wealthy to instill fear and control in the majority populace of the world... The working class.
These measures are calculated to dissuade people from even attempting to rise up against the system out of an abundance of fear, designed to keep them in control as long as possible while they rape the planet and people of its resources, happiness and strength to fight. All so they can continue doing whatever they want because they likely won't be alive long enough to see the long term effects.
Do I believe there is an inkling of good in there, sure but that little bit of good is from the under/uneducated populace that probably really do have good intentions when voting for these things. These people likely have no understanding of the underlying amount of data that is being collected on them and everyone else.
Just like me typing up this response, it's probably being recorded somewhere other than on these instances and being parsed by some computer scanning the internet for discontent and trying to tie it to anything it can in regards to a physical person.
The goal is maximum control. The only people that are misguided are the ones voting for these things that don't understand the ramifications. The ones that don't care and/or are in a position of power are not misguided.
You know where we should start, the Epstein files. They don't want to do that though because it would disrupt a lot the ruling class from retaining power and expose the fact that these things that are happening behind closed doors are tied to them more than the working class. There would be worldwide repercussions.
It's not just about human trafficking and accessing adult content. It's about war, the environment, money, and control.
The fear (in the ruling class) is starting to show, just a little bit. The cracks are forming, but the more influence they have over the uneducated helps them to maintain power. The world needs to keep the pressure on and let the ruling class know that we don't stand for this.
The American government and corporations are a massive part of the problem. I say that as an American. I've never voted for the orange dildo and from day one have been openly opposed to him and probably 80% of the people in power. That being said, this is also a global effort. It's not just happening here, we just have the biggest incompetent mouthpieces in the world.
You are right, but I bet they can monetize this somehow or at least exploit it for their own interests
The factor driving age verification has been laws passed by countries. It's not private industry forcing it, but government. That comes from people complaining to their legislators that they are unhappy that their kids can see online.
If you want a communist system, fine. But there are far too many users on here who, when faced with virtually anything they don't like, immediately post a screed complaining about ownership of private industry, when it often has absolutely nothing to do with the actual issue at hand.
EDIT: I'd also add that there are actual solutions if you object to something like this. You can pass a law against biometric-based age validation, which I can certainly understand
that form could be prohibited. You could have some alternative form of age-based validation to be instituted to create a path of least resistance for services, like having government provide and fund a zero-knowledge service to confirm various facts to services like age. In countries which have constitutional law and a higher bar to modify it than lower law, you could pass a constitutional law against any form of age validation ("ageism has no place in our country") to prevent legislators from easily passing things like age verification laws, which I personally don't think will fly politically in most places, but it's at least one theoretical option.
The fusion of capitalist and state power behind a racially supremacist ideology is the core of fascism. Communism is not the only alternative to fascism or capitalism
Capitalists NEED the state to enforce their will. It's sadism as well, the bourgeoise get to enjoy stuff, the proletariats don't.
you are conflating things. age validation does not equal ageism. age validation does not solve age restriction because a validated user account can be handed over to a kid, or taken over by them in secret. the parents that can't be assed to take care of their children won't keep their smartphone safe either, because that's inconvenient and takes time and attention
time for us to embrace peertube