The fact that people in the west don't understand there is propaganda in the west has always been astounding to me.

Maybe I’m looking at it more from the infrastructure than the content, but how could you make it more neutral?

To be fair, it wouldn't exist without DARPA.

But we shouldn't be relying on some bullshit InterNIC crap either. DNS should be federated. Each country gets their cctld to manage and 'international law' 'forces' the varios nic orgs to cooperate. extra tlds are federated on a choice basis.

Yeah more like people are starting to realize the internet is too American.

I don’t know what Doctorow’s politics are now, but I know he was deep in the dot-com libertarian milieu 30 years ago.

I agree, without applying a materialist lens, you just end up discussing symptoms endlessly and ignoring the actual mechanics of the system responsible for producing these outcomes. This is another example I just ran across today where the author is discovering the contradictions of capitalism from first principles. https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

I've found this also. He's a liberal with zero class analysis or materialist literacy. If you've ever read his books, like his main one, enshittification, it reads like a middle-school age baby leftist wrote it.

It's a testament to the sad state of US and canadian education that he's considered a pioneer in any field.

National Security Hawks are our friends!

What no class analysis does to a MFer.

The National Security Hawks in the US are in on the surveillance, feeding the data to AI, and churning out lists of targets to eventually drone strike - domestically and abroad.

Can someone connect me with these National Security Hawks that are for actual privacy and autonomy, instead of their own stupid surveillance states? Because I'm convinced Doctorow is making them up in hopes of inciting their existence.

His pitch of "stealing American Trillions to keep Billions" is enticing and elegant, but flies in the face of All of the political Momentum. I wish to flee to his first country to destroy American Copyright in favor of their own national sovereignty! But not even France is taking this step in declaring "independence" from American Tech.

National Security Hawks are our friends!

What no class analysis does to a MFer.

The National Security Hawks in the US are in on the surveillance, feeding the data to AI, and churning out lists of targets to eventually drone strike - domestically and abroad.

Can someone connect me with these National Security Hawks that are for actual privacy and autonomy, instead of their own stupid surveillance states? Because I'm convinced Doctorow is making them up in hopes of inciting their existence.

His pitch of "stealing American Trillions to keep Billions" is enticing and elegant, but flies in the face of All of the political Momentum. I wish to flee to his first country to destroy American Copyright in favor of their own national sovereignty! But not even France is taking this step.

China is doing internet right?

DNS is such a terrible thing, because, despite being amazing at what it does, and beautifully complex at times, it's still a massively centralized system that basically controls the internet. Of course it's based in the US.

It's also the reason why domain names cost significant money, and they even sell TLDs for insane prices that only megacorporations can afford. They can decide what TLDs get to exist, and ultimately, they have the power to ban domains, whole zones, or even TLDs. They essentially have the power to dismantle the internet as most people know it.

There are some alternative projects that aim to replace ICANN's root servers, but almost nobody has them set up (and the alternative root servers aren't even considered "legal" or part of the DNS system by any provider). Which leads to the alternative TLDs being almost useless. It's still a fun thing to set up, though.

Anyone who doubts this should look up where TCP/IP (the foundation of the internet) was developed.

The Government of Canada does not respect your rights as a human, in turn, I do not respect their authority to govern my use of technology.

Move to an encrypted email provider that does not have servers in Canada. Set up an account with a VPN that does not have servers in Canada. Plan ahead for a way to pay for these services that do no use Canadian currency.

Just a heads up that if you want to host full local models, you may want to try LM Studio or vMLX with models straight from hugging-face. Ollama is popular but they privilege their proprietary cloud MCP services and won’t even let you download web-enabled models unless you agree to use their API, which defeats your on-prem threat model.

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