3d ago

the myth of the good tech giant

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It's a symbol, it's easily recognizable for it's simplicity and only aim to help.
It helps us feel less alone and to find the resolve to fight togheter.
Y'all just love to feel miserable don't you?
- It is just homemade Reddit after all.
- I don't even use computers.
  
  Everything's computer!
  (Some pedophile)
- How can you stand to lie to yourself about reality, which is miserable?
  I couldn't live with myself if I didn't face reality and instead pretended I didn't see what was in front of my eyes
- not really. meaningless acts like this only serve to satisfy people enough that they don't feel the need to do something more meaningful. a protest that doesn't inconvenient anyone is not a protest. it's compliance with an asterisk.
  
  meaningless acts like this only serve to satisfy people enough that they don’t feel the need to do something more meaningful
  someone who is satisfied by doing a "meaningless act" wouldn't do something more direct either way.
  
  This is not a protest, this is a rally to arms, misery doesn't motivate change
  
  Step 1: Change your profile picture
  Step 2: ???
  Step 3: Surveillance Capitalism is defeated
  
  I'm sorry, next time we start a movement we'll be sure to send you a detailed plan step by step dumb proof, sorry for trying to get people onto even acknowledging an issue and making people realise that they are not alone
  
  Thank you, that would be a good step in the right direction so we can coordinate together.
  BTW, I think it's more of a call to arms to boycott companies that follow these practices, as a step one. Other steps might be more similar to how one fights fascist regimes.
  
  Are you not familiar with Louis Rossman? I think this "change your pfp to clippy" thing is dumb as hell too, and I'm upset that this is the thing from him that broke into the "mainstream".
  He's been championing right to repair, boycotting shit companies, documenting corporate bait and switches for years. He started and runs consumerrights.wiki, to document companies pulling shit like pushing out an update to smart TVs that blocks you from continuing to use them unless you agree to let them harvest your data. And ways to work around it. Trying to hold these fuckers accountable.
  Only a few weeks ago he put up a $5000 bounty for anyone that could jailbreak a specific smarthome product that is trying to get owners to now pay $100 a year to keep running.
  Again, I loathe this clippy bullshit, but "it's not enough" applies to the people doing it, not the guy who started it. There is a movement, this is just so far the only part of it to hit mainstream.
  
  Louis Rossman's cool, pure virtue signaling is less so.

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