Cutthroat is an understatement. He did a lot of illegal stuff in the USA and internationally because governments had no idea how he was exploiting them/breaking commercial law. He also bribed hundreds of governments and stifled innovation. The world would be a better place without him.
As others have said, you have to think critically about every piece of news you read. Ask yourself what the opposite side on a story might think, or look for an alternative opinion. If you're reading an article in The Economist, read an article in Le Monde Diplomatique on the same subject. If you're reading something about Russia in the Washington Post, read an article in RT on the same topic. Think critically, and the truth is likely somewhere between the two opposing points.
International mass media is a form of soft power for countries to exert influence. It's not a conspiracy it's a tool available to governments which is why you have the BBC, CGTN, RT, PressTV, CBC, etc. That the mass media in the USA is mostly private doesn't change that fact and make it more independent, because the USA is essentially an ogliopoly.
You listed a bunch of neoliberal ideology reinforcing news sources and then said you lean left. If those are your news sources you're on the right my friend.
Reuters is known as the "reluctant imperialist" news source. They use neutral language as much as possible but still back British interests. Owned by a Canadian multinational.
It would be corporate clients that are already all on Oracle for their careers. I've met guys that have built their entire career on Oracle and if you suggest any other software they'll try to politically assassinate you. Some people just care about money not the work they do.
Federation and decentralization are not Web 2.0 concepts. Just like people who first learned what a tweet and a follow were and all the other concepts of those social media platforms, they'll learn the new paradigm. Or they won't and we'll stick to 2.0 platforms.
I think Deepin will be a better distro in the long run. OpenKylin is like the class project everyone has to contribute to, but Deepin is a work of passion.
Sorry I don't want to turn this into a debate but I feel like you're being disingenious; black people are getting killed all around your country because of their skin colour, and you have private prisons that systematically exploit prison labour. How are the social, political, and cultural challenges for your country different than theirs? I live in a country the USA has deemed an autocracy, I'm not apart of the ruling class, but I am living safe and not being targeted with hateful violence. Likewise, are you ignorant to the plight of ethnic minorities in your country and the hateful violence they experience? It just seems so chauvanist of you to say that your country is superior than anothers because you have the privilege of being "safe".
Have you found that their political leanings have affected you in any way? Just curious if you have some sort of bias that's making you think people on the left can't produce efficient software.
Companies do delete data on individuals when they have no more economic value to them unless they're required by regulation to retain that data. Yes it's true the world is storing terabytes more of data per day, but my company holds on to customer records for 5 years, if they don't do business with us in this 5 years we will physically delete that data everywhere. There's many use cases like this where old data isn't stored because it doesn't make economic sense to. Maybe when there's a next gen parquet file that can store a decades worth of records in the size of a few KB, but at a certain point data does rot.
People complain about Banks screwing them over with fees and caring more about investor profits all the time. But few people move their money to credit unions or other co-operatively owned financial institutions.
Usually it's because of some minor inconvenience.
World News is hosted on Lemmy.ml and since you use the term Tankie I suppose you're biased and may not see the shift in what articles are upvoted the most on that sub.
Cutthroat is an understatement. He did a lot of illegal stuff in the USA and internationally because governments had no idea how he was exploiting them/breaking commercial law. He also bribed hundreds of governments and stifled innovation. The world would be a better place without him.