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It is strange that this is happening all at once. Pretty much no major advances in the war on general purpose computing for the past decade, but in 2025 there a
by beeflet 1y ago
It is strange that this is happening all at once. Pretty much no major advances in the war on general purpose computing for the past decade, but in 2025 there are a number of major attempts to lock everything down.
- BrenBarn 1y agoLet's think about what happened in 2025. Say, January 2025. Say, 20 January 2025.
- hagbard_c 1y agoThat's called 'Reductio Ad Trumpum' and it is just as absurd as its spiritual predecessor, 'Reductio Ad Hitlerum' (https://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnazium.html https://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnazium.html)
- Idesmi 1y agoThis website is amazing, thank you for sharing!
- alex989 1y agoDo you really believe it's Trump's fault that politicians in the EU are pushing for the end of encryption, mandatory digital ID, and age verifications?
- pas 1y agonever let a good crisis go to waste, right? but the same processes that put the orange man there put similar people in other places too and similar sentiments led to voters preferring authoritarian measures
- stavros 1y agoYou left the DMA and GDPR out of that, which makes the entire argument conveniently one-sided.
- realusername 1y agoYes and no, Safetynet and Play Integrity were also major attacks against computing.