NutWrench @ NutWrench @lemmy.world

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It's just another example of news orgs running interference for a twenty-something dbag "entrepreneur"who has no idea how his business works.

In the 1999s-2000s we used WebWasher. It was basically a proxy server which you ran locally on your computer and it had all the filters. You just set up your browser's network connection to point to WebWasher and it acted as the gateway to the Internet.

If browsers somehow decided to kill all their plugin support, you could still use that to filter your content.

Given how easy it is to create shell corporations, how does any of this prevent the CCP from running TikTok through another proxy?

I.e. is all this posturing just a colossal waste of time?

Elon doesn't care about making the companies he owns work. He's just looking for that next bong hit of attention he gets from keeping his name in the news.

He burned through tens of billions to buy Twitter, turned it to crap (well . . . crappier than it was) and he doesn't care. He gets bored with his toys quickly if they don't get him the attention he craves.

"We're gonna ban Internet stuff" is something said by people who have no idea how the Internet works.

I switched from Nova Launcher to Lawnchair (GitHub) over a year ago. I think it's great. https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair

And in the 1970s it was, "we all need to tighten our belts and conserve resources."

Guess which part of society didn't follow that advice at all?

Google has also gotten lazy and is prioritizing YouTube and Reddit results, instead of webcrawler results.

Evangelicals call it "prosperity gospel" and it's a total perversion of Jesus' teachings. Basically, it claims that rich people deserve to be rich because their wealth is proof that they have God's favor. It's used to explain away why preachers are allowed to own private jets, yachts and diamond mines.

"Just imagine that I turned in a really good paper."

The entire point of the Fedi-verse is so that one person or small group of people can't ruin the entire platform for everyone else. Anyone who tells you how to moderate your content, backed up by a threat can screw off.

The pirates will simply move to another Lemmy Instance and re-create the group there. This is the advantage of having a decentralized platform: so one person or small group of people can't ruin things for the rest of us.

Middle-of-the-road person: "You are not in a culture war or an ideology war. You are both in a CLASS war, run by billionaires who are the REAL source of your pain. They use the six corporations that control all the news to distract you and keep you fighting with each other so that they . . . the rich . . . can run off with all the f*cking money."

This. Musk disabled Starlink to fark over the Ukrainians. He should not be trusted with any military contracts. Ever.

" . . . for U.S. intelligence."

Yeah. Sure. Right. Musk will sell Intelligence to ANYONE who pays for it and US taxpayers will foot the entire bill for constructing the satellite network.

And then all the contractors and politicians will all pretend to be surprised by this and Musk will get the finger-wagging of a lifetime.

Schumer (re: Israel) "losing their way" Biden (re: huge civilian death toll in Gaza) "hurting Israel"

You weak, pathetic sons of b*tches. Your government is contributing militarily and financially to a genocidal ethno state and THIS is the best you can come up with? This is what your "criticism" looks like when someone's got you by the balls.

Most of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" wouldn't work today because of the Internet and electronic receipts.

Yup. News sources have been consolidating for the last 50 years. It used to be that every news outlets you watched was ultimately owned by one of 40 companies. Today, that number is 5. So if five billionaires get together and decide something is not going to be talked about, then it DOESN'T get talked about. This is why the Internet has them so freaked out. They can't control it (yet) so it's a threat to their version of reality.

This is also why our "liberal news media" does such a terrible job of speaking truth to bullshit. It's not necessary to report "both sides of an argument" if one side of the argument is insane, woo-woo dipshiterry. What they're doing there is gaslighting you into thinking that babbling nonsense is "just another point of view" It's not in the interest of billionaires to have informed citizens, capable of critical thinking, so the point of this exercise is to keep us fighting with each other about where the REAL source of our problems come from while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the f*cking money.

Bernie is an example of what a progressive politician actually looks like.

American politicians (Republicans AND Democrats) have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, Democrats are where the Republicans were in the 1980s, boring corporatists and friends of banks, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.

And the Republicans have moved all the way into an insane asylum. They long for the "good old days" of company towns, run by 19th century robber barons and worry that the six corporations that control all our news are the "liberal news media."

This reminds me of a stunt a company pulled a few years ago, where they sold a bunch of bald Bratz dolls and claimed they were "undergoing chemotherapy."

They were really taking a bunch of unfinished dolls and trying to dump them for a quick buck.