car which is bought once and is mostly outside of vendor control once you have it

Well, cars in the 1940s at least. Don’t buy a Tesla.

Yes? But only if it’s the guy in charge of a network service I’m buying.

They’ll do that at the drop of a hat these days. It’s been a slippery slope since WikiLeaks.

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Thats the nifty part, for centralized fact-checkers we just use LLMs!

Isn’t that just contributing cynicism?

I wouldn’t listen to a victim who says it’s great, because they’ve got a brain implant from Elon Musk. For all I know it’s like Get Out.

I was kinda making a similar argument because of “if they were smart”. They are smart. Americans are smart too. But being smart doesn’t trivialize the very complicated problems with overthrowing a dictatorship/oligarchy, because neither government is currently democratic in practice — so voting will not work.

This is the best news I’ve heard all day! Thanks.

How do we stop the oligarchy ruling the USA without them ruining your life for going first?

I don’t know what it’s like in Australia, but here in the USA the large websites write laws like that specifically to prevent competition from small websites.

Better make an octopus Facebook group instead.

Old people can use Tor

The “it’s a private company lolz” thing was itself a reaction to when Republicans were refusing to make gay wedding cakes, and the loss of the Fairness Doctrine long before that.

What does Facebook have now, a monarchy? Their moderators are way worse than Twitter fact-checking ever was.

That is pretty flawless reasoning, so it’s definitely real and not a Truman show at all.