Maybe that says a lot about the real value of digital social networks as we know them now.
Perhaps we should just have dumb pipes, and let people network over them without a MITM running psychology and behavioral economics experiments on people who merely want to connect with friends and family
Sort of how Elastic using the license that’s biting them; can’t really expect much else so long as “it’s a private company they can hire as they see fit” is the default political posture.
Your problem transcends one whiner on Twitter; private entities can monopolize public agency across contexts and not be held accountable at all.
Why not fire the CEO for being disengaged from coming up with a novel idea?
The meme is these people work so…much…harder. But none of them built the patterns and infra that enable these companies to spin up in days, on their own.
Without a society capitulating to behave this way, these guys wouldn’t have anything. I see no reason to believe they should be respected for grifting.
> a work stop was all of not opening laptops for 35-40% of the country
Strikes are social events, you don't do it alone. There's usually a minority of agitators/organizers that are respected/trusted among workers and that call the shots/organize the fun. So working from home is very much anti-organization and hinders strikes. It isolates workers.
The problem is "mob dynamics". A visible picket line, a blocked street - that creates attention and draws more workers into the strike. On the Internet, these crowd dynamics don't work nearly as effective as they do in the meatspace.
Amazon and Google will notice but your local news station will not. Without press coverage forcing the company to negotiate employees have very little bargaining power.
You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice?
I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry around if it’s also literally abusive to the species as a whole.
They’ll scan content if you have it set to goto iCloud so as to avoid being an accomplice.
Turn off sync to iCloud, make local backups only.
Who is to say politicians who started threatening tech companies publicly haven’t made threats behind closed doors about Apple maybe being on the hook as an accomplice for distribution?
My company only exists because our CEO had input on an executive order years ago. We hardly “made it” in the free market.
The headlines never tell the full story. Media colludes with politics to generate “the right” sentiment. The spec and implementation details aren’t being discussed, just classic speculation on privacy and overreach.
So much for this site having a higher level of discourse and it’s efforts to dissuade repetitive and knee jerk commentary though.
We’d have nicer things if we discussed how things work and instead of what corporate media wants us to discuss.
What we should really be hammering on I think is the vendor lock-in, walled garden, and monopolistic aspects.
To me this CP scanning nonsense is Apple waving a carrot in front of the Establishment to get the Anti-Trust heat off, while selling everyone else on further degrading privacy through a slam dunk deliverable to satisfy the short-game players, but that's just me.
If the public isn’t going to push back against establishment politics looking like they did 100 years ago, good luck.
Like waves and particles; it starts with individuals changing their behavior.
But we’d all rather sit around debating ephemeral abstraction (a lot like religion), reconfirming math and the physical universe still work as discovered years ago, as we’re all still “rich enough” the bottom falling out hasn’t gotten to us yet, political problems are for the poor.
The below links encapsulate some parts of why Apple cannot be continually trusted with customer data, or viewed as a paragon for privacy/security. There have been numerous examples, past and present e.g. The Fappening, T2 Chip flaws, atrocious leaks of customer data, Pegasus etc.
Some people with technical prowess, although not deluded, buy these devices with limited desire to constantly tweak or circumvent security features, especially when these devices claim to have them baked in and promise not to intrude.
>So much for this site having a higher level of discourse and it’s efforts to dissuade repetitive and knee jerk commentary though.
I am invested in this ecosystem, so the topic has a certain resonance. I resent your implication that my response to the original author was knee-jerk commentary. Furthermore, I responded to their nonchalance with a view to furnish a counterpoint.
It’s a shared planet and resources but unfortunately you don’t own any of it.
Political ownership calls the shots. Might look different if the politically detached organized against rent seeking and monopoly but you’re all busy building rent seeking startups, easily monopolized blockchains for pump and dumpers funded by nation states.
What a shock politics are going fascist.
Remember when taxes were high and people were politically engaged, America was held up as a haven.
The system will emit one system that will always align with our understanding of reality with constants we cannot violate. The perimeter is programmed; physics. All this modeling is filling in the middle. What it means as far as impact on human agency is up to politics as usual.
This is more of the same “we have this streamlined math model, now what?”
All these things are is confirmation math operators still work within our known bubble of physics.
It’s mathematically true whether we define it or not. Some geometric art project is not a good basis for application of my agency.
Biology science allows us to take the view the application of these ideas is chemical delusion. The cynical take is that managing human agency with models most cannot understand the meaning of is fascist.
Go ahead and draw spirals on a wall all day. I don’t have to pick to politically empower people for it.
You know what saves money and effort? Doing less and buying less. An economical solution that’s untenable or rich people would be normal.
Perhaps we should just have dumb pipes, and let people network over them without a MITM running psychology and behavioral economics experiments on people who merely want to connect with friends and family