I love that someone downvoted you for this when there's been a very real and recent trend of major studios and publishers chucking staff into the wind right after successful game launches.

That whole instance is a dumpster fire. It's not lemmy.ml levels of brainfried, but it's not much better.

Companies are the new de facto legislators manufacturing narratives to push their ideas along. When that doesn't work, they simply use their overwhelming market share to push us there anyway, replacing our law with policy.

Nations that aren't instituting forced ID for internet use are still going to be pulled along for the ride unless they have their own digital systems to effectively replace US tech hegemony, and look how long it took to make two thoroughly "mid" mobile operating systems.

If you're worried about this sort of over reach, then consider trying a Linux distro on your phone, or a spare if you can afford it.

Replacing the complete ecosystem is going to take time and effort, and it's gonna suck but better now than never.

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If we have to give our data to NYT to read it, it's not actually free.

Trump would love this; he'd sic ICE on them and call them terrorists.

"Canada INVADED us to try and shut down our country in collaboration with ANTIFA! They're nasty and OUT OF CONTROL! Governor Carney isn't doing anything about it so we might have to step in to get things under control again..."

They'd all get moved around the US to limit the effectiveness of protesting at any one facility and then they'd deport most of them to some other country just to be dog cunts about it.

All part of the plan to keep "suspected illegals" (BIPOCs) from voting on election day.

Hello, fellow eldritch being!

"But not many people know how to use it to it's full advantage"

This is, of course, their insane attempt to regulate access to information that will ultimately be the stepping stone they use to justify banning VPNs, computers without government controls, and so on.

Is he, though?