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I guess pandering to governments worldwide tends to have such effects. Just wish we could crowd fund another country or planet to avoid all this BS....

iamdamian 3y ago
How will starting a new country or colonizing a new planet help us avoid the problems we've already created for ourselves?
- wincy 3y ago
  Benevolent dictatorship is the only way.
  - wahnfrieden 3y ago
    No gods, no masters.
    - seventytwo 3y ago
      Only slaves? Or…?
      - wahnfrieden 3y ago
        Individuals
    - guerrilla 3y ago
      Indeed, also the title of a great documentary[1] about the history of anarchism around the world. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ-utvfgK8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ-utvfgK8Q
  - goodpoint 3y ago
    Forgot the "/s"?
  - beebeepka 3y ago
    And when the dictator dies, so will the way
  - villgax 3y ago
    You mean arms on Mars or something about the Linux kernel?
- villgax 3y ago
  My point is to avoid government overreach like how China, Russia, UK & almost India behave with regards to the internet existing & wanting companies to make backdoors within encryption or get booted out of such markets
rideontime 3y ago
I missed the mention of "pandering to governments worldwide" in this article, what are you talking about?
- villgax 3y ago
  > In the early 2000s, there was all this hype that the next frontier for American tech companies was China. Yahoo went into China and started ratting out its users to the politburo and having them arrested and tortured because that was what it took to stay in China. And Google, the “don’t be evil” company was like, “We’re going to do that, too.” Even then, I think, they were like, “We don’t have any ideas. We can’t do better than Yahoo. We just have to do what Yahoo’s doing better than them. We’re not going to have a better idea than Yahoo has.” So, they went into China. (Project Dragonfly anyone?)
hezralig 3y ago
The article didn't touch on a single thing related to pandering to governments. Could you explain the connection?
- villgax 3y ago
  > In the early 2000s, there was all this hype that the next frontier for American tech companies was China. Yahoo went into China and started ratting out its users to the politburo and having them arrested and tortured because that was what it took to stay in China. And Google, the “don’t be evil” company was like, “We’re going to do that, too.” Even then, I think, they were like, “We don’t have any ideas. We can’t do better than Yahoo. We just have to do what Yahoo’s doing better than them. We’re not going to have a better idea than Yahoo has.” So, they went into China. (Project Dragonfly anyone?)

iamdamian 3y ago

How will starting a new country or colonizing a new planet help us avoid the problems we've already created for ourselves?

wincy 3y ago
Benevolent dictatorship is the only way.
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  No gods, no masters.
  - seventytwo 3y ago
    Only slaves? Or…?
    - wahnfrieden 3y ago
      Individuals
  - guerrilla 3y ago
    Indeed, also the title of a great documentary[1] about the history of anarchism around the world. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ-utvfgK8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ-utvfgK8Q
- goodpoint 3y ago
  Forgot the "/s"?
- beebeepka 3y ago
  And when the dictator dies, so will the way
- villgax 3y ago
  You mean arms on Mars or something about the Linux kernel?
villgax 3y ago
My point is to avoid government overreach like how China, Russia, UK & almost India behave with regards to the internet existing & wanting companies to make backdoors within encryption or get booted out of such markets

rideontime 3y ago

I missed the mention of "pandering to governments worldwide" in this article, what are you talking about?

villgax 3y ago
> In the early 2000s, there was all this hype that the next frontier for American tech companies was China. Yahoo went into China and started ratting out its users to the politburo and having them arrested and tortured because that was what it took to stay in China. And Google, the “don’t be evil” company was like, “We’re going to do that, too.” Even then, I think, they were like, “We don’t have any ideas. We can’t do better than Yahoo. We just have to do what Yahoo’s doing better than them. We’re not going to have a better idea than Yahoo has.” So, they went into China. (Project Dragonfly anyone?)

hezralig 3y ago

The article didn't touch on a single thing related to pandering to governments. Could you explain the connection?

villgax 3y ago
> In the early 2000s, there was all this hype that the next frontier for American tech companies was China. Yahoo went into China and started ratting out its users to the politburo and having them arrested and tortured because that was what it took to stay in China. And Google, the “don’t be evil” company was like, “We’re going to do that, too.” Even then, I think, they were like, “We don’t have any ideas. We can’t do better than Yahoo. We just have to do what Yahoo’s doing better than them. We’re not going to have a better idea than Yahoo has.” So, they went into China. (Project Dragonfly anyone?)