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I'm old enough to remember when the big names in social media sites decided to copy Facebook's "Real names" policy, which they added themselves for better targe
by ben_w 9mo ago
I'm old enough to remember when the big names in social media sites decided to copy Facebook's "Real names" policy, which they added themselves for better targeted ads.
If this is an attack on free speech, the war was lost 15 years ago, even in the USA. Of course, given what's going on in the US right now, one may well respond "yes, the US did lose sometime around then".
For now though, I'd be more worried about all the verifiers leaking PII due to vibe coding and competent attackers.
- expedition32 9mo agoAmerica is run by tech bro billionaires. Europe doesn't really have a tech industry and the CCP has the balls to jail them.
- ben_w 9mo ago> America is run by tech bro billionaires. IMO, that would be an improvement if it were so. Rather, it is being exploited by tech bro billionaires, squeezing the population's ability to generate disposable income in the same way Malthusianism expects populations to always grow to the point of squeezing the environment's ability to supply food. That's much worse than "running" the country.