Antanicus"Google in particular has come close to realizing our nightmare scenario from 1998, a vertically integrated Internet controlled by a single monopoly player. Google runs its own physical network, builds phone handsets, develops a laptop and phone operating system, makes the world’s most widely-used browser, runs a private DNS system, PKI certificate authority, has photographed nearly all the public spaces in the world, and stores much of the world’s email."
Simon 🌧@Antanicus all of that together is terrifying
@simonv3 it is. but what terrifies me the most is people turning a blind eye to all this, even cheering their master of choice (eg. #ios fanboys vs. #android fanboys etc...) or working for them for free (tagging picuters in #facebook or #instagram etc...)
@Antanicus I get personal tagging for your own organization, but there's people who tag to get more likes or to "engage" a wider audience and I can't understand that. And if they then tag me, they attach me to that free labor, which is doubly upsetting.
Tomas SA2TMSSurveillance capitalism indeed. I like the idea of encouraging collective action by employees at the Big Five, especially sysadmin types that quite literally keep them running
Sydney Falk, An Oversensitive SJW Typesmall consolation: it wasn't a government! :\
also, I mean, people DID kind of groove into the cyberpunk dystopia and all, so, like -- yay for the upcoming aesthetic? :\
sigh