hyperhopper @ hyperhopper @lemmy.ml

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Very untrue. Consumers have the power to buy far cheaper Android phones where they have far more freedoms, but not only do the majority of American consumers refuse to do this, they voluntarily and systematically shame those who do.

Statistically, Most American consumers are pretty dumb and act against their own interests

SEO was a problem before Google search became uniqutous

SEO might be the clearest example of Goodhart's law to ever exist

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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The real question is how many of the creators would love the ability to put this in their game. Maybe they wished it looked like the upscaled version all along but couldn't due to the technical restrictions of the time

And the 5 plz and thank you

Agreed about them doing nothing against the law in the past.

But against your last anecdote: 150k now is worth more than having to maybe pay 150k later

But when one businesses whims can harm the right of millions, it's time to regulate them so the CEOs feelings don't fuck users over.

But is he getting a hefty stock based compensation package? Can he sell those stocks before he bails?

Do you believe it's actually possible to eliminate malware? I don't, and I don't think fear of that is a good reason to let a megacorp censored and suppress people's rights.

Also that quote wasn't actually said by Voltaire, but I have another out of context and disputed quote for you that's very relevant here:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Your printshop isn't a de-facto public town square. Apple, Google, Twitter, and other large companies have inserted themselves into that position.

People like you that just go "government vs private business" miss the entire context, history, and nuance because why that distinction even ever mattered in the past and how it came to be.

In the past, almost every business was closer in practice to being an individual. Your local print shop. Your local hardware store, etc. And for businesses like that, I agree with you 100% , they should get the right to do what they want.

However, private mega-corporations nowadays have more power than most governments at the time the Constitution was signed. When a company has the power to decide what more than half the country can put on their own phone, that's national level power, companies can seriously oppreess people, discriminate, etc, at this scale. Sure, this is a case of stopping a bad person, but there have also been cases of apple censoring apps critical of apple or other awful governmental atrocities in other countries. I'd rather apple not be able to censor anything, than be able to censor things like that.

And your last paragraph is flat out wrong. Freedom of Speech is a concept, that means you are free to say what you want. You might be thinking of the first amendment to the United States Constitution, which is just one thing the US government promises to do.

As for Google, I agree.

As for apple, how is anybody supposed to install the app if apple refuses to publish it? Unlike Google, they made their app store the gatekeeper as the only way to install apps for end users.

I have had girls halfway through giving me their number, stop because they realize it's not an iPhone. I have friends I hang out with multiple times a week for almost a decade that don't add me to the friends group chat because it's 15 iOS users and most don't want to deal with non iMessage messaging. Are you seriously telling me you've never been in a single groupchat where people say things like "Wait who doesn't have an iPhone in here"? Because I've been in dozens.

At least on Android you can load any app you want at any time even if Google delists it from the play store. Literally did this the other day to install an app that Google didn't allow that was only hosted on fdroid

You also apparently never read or respond to the actual point other people are making.

I support freedom for people. Apple is not a person.

Also "platforms" like the one apple now operates is akin to a "platform" like mail which has been determined to be a right. The thing is popular opinion and regulations have not yet caught up to this, but we have never had singular corporations that have widespread control the way tech companies do now. I believe we need to rectify this and make sure that companies that act as platforms for the public stop meddling with what the public does on those platforms.

Terms of service can be incredibly one sided. And you don't have the option to not agree or negotiate, and still use the hardware you paid for in a reasonable way.

I don't support rapists. That dude and people that want his app suck.

But everybody deserves to be able to run whatever software there want on their devices. And no company should be able to tell you what to do with things that you own.

1. It's not as simple as "not doing business with apple". There are serious social ramifications to not having an iPhone in the US.
2. Even if I choose to do business with them, I should still have Rights as a customer.

It's not easy

Okay, aside from 1 ascii character being off, have any meaningful response to what I meant with my comment?

No, I'm saying just because we currently don't regulate large corporations enough doesn't mean they should have the right to fuck over anybody they want to