Hmm yes you see we've realised that in order to prosecute the microscopic fraction of people who might be inexplicably watching CSAM on their smart TV, we need to spy on every single person on the planet.

And since we have that data anyway,we're gonna monetize the ever loving fuck out of it.

It can detect porn. They won't be bribed on this one.

I wonder how long it will take until they all start using DoH and conveniently make the TV fail if it's blocked...

Or extortion. He makes a stink, they make some campaign donations, and he backs off or gives them a slap on the wrist.

Yup. He just sued the EPIC medical record company this past week or so claiming they are a monopoly. Took me 5 minutes to figure out he’s just mad Epic allows their hospital clients to restrict parents from accessing some of their kids medical information once they’re past the age of 12. I don’t think I have to spell out what he doesn’t want kids to be able to hide from their parents. It’s disgusting. There’s always an ulterior motive with this fuck

And if they watch liberal or spanish-language programming.

They need to identify threats to Texas democracy: specifically anyone who turns off their TV during an episode of Walker: Texas Ranger.

palintir sure wants this data.

If the question is vague bullshit like this, the answer is "no".

Yeah, 100% decline anything that asks for personalized anything.

Techgoblin doublespeak should be illegal

Oh people like you make my head hurt. Not because you're wrong, because you're not. You're entirely right here.

The reason people like you make my head hurt is because you live in this self isolated bubble where you think everyone else is mentally on the same page as you.

You're baffled that anyone would agree to that checkbox, because anyone who reads it would understand as you understand that it's not in your best interest.

Whereas I'M baffled that you think hardly anyone reads the EULA of anything.

Google could literally put in their EULA "user agrees to chop off their genitals and walk barefoot on hot coals". People would still agree and check yes. Why? Because they never read it. They just click the thing that lets them do the thing and use the thing. Thats as far as 99% go with EULAs.

I've watched people like you in person complain that everybody doesn't do things their way. And while that way is, in general, a better way than is currently being handled, it all falls apart on one key aspect to not understanding the world. That important key being that the world does not see things through your eyes. They do not think of things from your perspective. But instead of taking action to create a world with better ideas being practiced, you sit on the sidelines, watching as the world does what the world will do, and thats be influenced by others. That is what humanity has always been. That's what it will always be. But in the last 200 years, instead of being influenced by the ideas of a community upbringing, and structure, and morals, it is now, and for all of our lives, been influenced by the ultra rich. The 1%.

We've fallen into a world where a persons worth is equal to their net worth. A world where celebrities and ultra rich businessmen are celebrated rather than shunned. Entire genres of music where the sole message is "I have money, therefore bitches fuck me". And the masses flock to it, because they have adopted that message as their own.

Here you sit. Not having fallen for the basic tricks that are played on society. That alone gives you a huge step up, to rise above the glass ceiling, break through, and bring changes needed to this world.

Instead, you ponder why no one else recognizes there is a glass ceiling. You question why others aren't doing things the way you would, while offering no resistence of substance.

Everyone wants to complain about shrinkflation, but nobody wants to stop buying the product. If they change the formula, or the price, or the portion size, or whatever, and suddenly they have 0 purchases, things go back how they were real fucking quick. It is up to us, as the ones who see what is happening to educate those around us. To filter out the static noise of the internet's social media. To teach our loved ones that they are being ripped off. Stop buying "smart" tv's. Teach those around you to only buy dumb tv's. And if there's no dumb tv's on sale, then there's no tv's to buy. And if they keep not selling dumb tv's, you keep not buying. You teach those around you to keep not buying.

This is how you fight the war against the elite. Not with guns, but with wallets that refuse to open. They can't take our money unless we agree to buy their goods.

But we'll never get to that point from the sidelines.

You should try asking people about the last EULA they read the next time you're at a party. You're gonna be blown away.

What the user sees:

Do you want to use this thing you paid for?

[I agree] [Go into a complicated menu that doesn't matter]

Because the likely outcome will be a shady backroom business deal where they take a cut or just a payoff and you'll never hear about it again. It's Texas.

It is because of who is running Texas. We don't believe them. It's either kabuki, or a means to extract something from the corporations while blowing smoke up our asses.

Because the people making these claims have an extremely consistent record of siding with rich donors instead of their citizens. They lie have a consistent track record of being caught lying. Trust is earned, and Ken Paxton has consistently done the opposite of that.

Because at the same time they're trying to implement age verification for app stores while also very vaguely defining what an app store is.

The Act defines an “App Store” as “a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device.”

So... what constitutes a mobile device? Who is an owner/developer? Does github have to implement age verification for mobile devices?

Because corporations are only people when it comes to good things. If it's a bad thing, corporate veil protects the people doing the crimes because they have (what no one who puts any thought to it would believe is) plausible deniability because they never told people to do illegal things, they just said they wanted something done and let their underlings figure it out.

Manipulating stocks and extorting companies?

This is a shakedown nothing more. Same as the Tylenol causes autism things last month.

Ain't nobody tracking my family..

Wrongthink detected, employing field-agents.

^/s

Ken Paxton saying or doing something reasonable and/or beneficial is more like finding a random page torn out from a page-a-day calendar and having it be the right day and date but from a different year

Yes, but he's very much correct here. Paint-eating clock syndrome.

one paxtons tie is long enough to reach his knees.

Yeah, not so much. It's all about Paxton trying to boost his image for the election. Fully expect it to be quietly dropped or settled afterwards.

Or just right for the wrong reasons.

You don't have to thanks to thread and sidewalk networks.... Your TV will just phone home through your neighbors ring doorbell on it's own if you don't connect it to WiFi.