I did all of this and it didn’t fucking help.
GIVE ME BACK MY INTERNET, THE INTERNET BEFORE SOCIAL MEDIA, OR I’LL HATE YOU ALL FOREVER! FUCK REDDIT, FUCK THE FEDIVERSE, FUCK EVERYTHING YOU BASED THE MODERN INTERNET ON. I WANT A PLACE WHERE I CAN BE MY REAL SELF AND I WILL KILL TO GET IT BECAUSE THE REST OF YOU ALREADY FUCKING HAVE THAT.
You missed a category.
Child Safety
It is impossible to prevent information taken without the approval of society at large from being uploaded online, as privacy is guaranteed. This means CSAM is a regular occurrence. Tracking or blocking the content based on any factor whatsoever is impossible.
This includes information most people are not comfortable with being held back only by the potential of a NSFW tag and censor.
While your child is no longer liable to become a disposaperson officially, as they would in a world without privacy, children find themselves completely insulated from society as black market trade of human slaves rapidly grows, with children sadly fetching a higher price and becoming regular targets for kidnappings.
Unable to keep up with the inevitable arms race, parents become increasingly desperate. The need for privacy, now a liability, either collapses to pressure or doubles down.
If it caves to political pressure, congratulations. Your children are doomed to be disposapeople. I agree, a world with no privacy is a dystopia and that will happen if a backlash is successful.
If it doesn’t, society moves to reclassify children as slaves because no effort is able to protect the naive even if their naivety is just innocence that arises from lack of adult traits. The black market is either too powerful to stop, or the very same cause of it’s existence guarantees that absolute privacy means potential normalization of the sexual exploitation of children to an amount proportionate to the efforts made to stop the exploitation.
Oh, and politicians will still buy your kidnapped kids to be slaves on a private island because humans can’t be trusted as individuals any more than corporations, government or religion.
Now you know why I hate you all. No matter what, none of you care about any child and you never did. All you ever cared about was feeling like you were a good person for following society’s expectations.
The only way this ends is with Autosovereigncy, or in layman’s terms, “we have to build the UnMatrix - the Matrix but minus the people farming and with us able to create our own worlds in it - and trap ourselves in it permanently separated because reality is a monstrocity that should not be”. If that’s even possible. The fact it’s probably not means reality is predisposed to be as painful as possible no matter what we do and I refuse to let anyone delude themselves into forgetting that just so they can preach about whatever they consider a solution.
And no, this isn’t Nihilism or Misanthropy. Even a Nihilistic person is selfish. Misanthropes think machines or nature are better. I’m well beyond that. I’m an anti-ontonomist, I desire the cessation of existence. I don’t care anymore, as long as whatever happens kills everything, I am happy to light 10 more fires every time someone complains that Rome is burning.
Didn’t realize how far back the feed was reaching because everything was limited to a handful of communities on my feed.
No disagreement here.
People are the problem, then. All people. And not in a solvable way.
I can’t fucking fix you or myself or anyone else. If technology was the problem, machines can be repaired or replaced. People can’t, yet you all insist on being fucking insufferable.
Oh yeah, Trump? Well, come near anyone to defend those fucking nazimobiles (provided there was no one in them, I’m not crazy) over people and see how long you last. This is war, doesn’t matter that you’re a handful of people with a shitton of money, WE WILL END YOU.
The article itself fits, thank you.
At this point, micro transactions for cosmetics are like candy. Kids will resent you and the values you try to impose if it makes them less able to participate in group activities. Restricting it to an allowance makes sense, disallowing it does not. I say this as someone who was banned from playing any video games as a kid for bullshit reasons.
There’s a reason that, when people realized smoking was toxic, they petitioned governments to ban them in increasing amounts and thus eventually de-popularize tobacco, rather than try to get kids to not smoke. If all your friends are allowed to, fuck whatever the reason is that you can’t.
Basically this.
I do want to point out, they COULD do BE ethically. Remove the subscription option and take a cut for all mod sales, and let private server operators and Realms use purchased mods while continuing to not charge players. Then put a legal ToS condition that using Realms requires such servers be operated without profit. Watch people set up private servers and Realms for their friends and charge private servers for API access. Done deal.
Of course, somebody at Microsoft wasn’t satisfied with that. They wanted complete control.
Protips for preparing for a potential end of java in a way that at least forces M$ to do something actually productive:
The Broligarchy: “Everything.”
Me: Squints Pours glowing demon tanning lotion on ground
Trump: “You dare dispute my rule?! And you would have these… mongrels… come here to die?”
Open Source Metaverse online. Launching Anti-StarLink missiles…
Warning. FOSS Metaverse alternative launch detected.
The Broligarchy: “This was not how it was supposed to be…”
Me: “Times change. But war, war never changes.”
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“We will never be slaves. But we WILL be online. For the Open Source Metaverse we deserve!”
Anyway, hopefully that’s the real future in some sense. The metaverse is, technologically, in a state resembling 1995’s World Wide Web. We can stop the changes that made social media happen the first time, but that comes at a grave cost of it’s own… Zero tolerance for interference with the FOSS paradigm. This means no censorship even for the most vile of content, and no government authority over online activity ever again. It also means we have less than 150 years to become immortal because having children inherently puts kids at risk of sexual exploitation, so everyone - literally everyone - must be made infertile permanently to make that impossible.
Life extension is actually plausible, and omnispermicide would make denying it a war crime. That is the only fix I can see, but all of you would never pay it. That is why I stopped writing; every goddamn story and society at large championed “anti-escapism” in 2017 and onwards, and I will NEVER forgive you all for that. Fuck reality. I Have No Truth and I Must Dream. I want to die because I hate you all.