"YouTube confirms crackdown on VPN users accessing cheaper Premium plans"
No, listen, you just don't understand.
If Google pays taxes in a random country to cheat the system and save money, that's because "Globalism".
If you do it, you get banned though.
Isaac Asimov on How Libraries Can Radically Change Your Life (1971)
https://www.openculture.com/2022/12/isaac-asimov-on-how-libraries-can-radically-change-your-life-1971.html via @openculture
Back in 1971, Isaac Asimov sent a letter to celebrate the opening of a new library in Troy, Michigan. Thoughtful as always, his letter addressed the children of the Troy community as follows: 'Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library.
My favorite quote from this article:
"What’s attractive about Mastodon isn’t the software (it’s not as slick as corporate social media but it’s still very good) — it’s the values of the platform. No one is trying to hack the attention of Mastodon users for profit, no one is bombarding us with ads. It’s just a community of people, communicating."
https://worldhistory.medium.com/tech-journalism-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-mastodon-df1309f088a0