For privacy to have inherent value, it first must be an established, inherent right. Unfortunately, the Constitution doesn’t talk about it to my knowledge. I’ve always inferred that our rights against unlawful search and seizure basically encapsulate the concept, but whatever.

Tell that to dumbass IT “managers” that think a process monitor is a hacking tool.

Fun fact: That’s not real milk. It’s just Elmer’s glue, they use it to stage the perfect shot.

Does anyone have a comprehensible guide for setting all this up?

Good point. Amazon is definitely trying to make COVID issues the new normal.

As bad as those two linked incidents were, they weren’t exactly government sanctioned. Police sanctioned, sure, and the government should do more to reign that shit in, but comparing them to Tiennamen is disingenuous at best.

The Chinese government hates letting its citizens have a voice.

This may be the greatest thumbnail of all time. Nay, is.

I’m just a layman, but it has been nagging my brain how all these big tech companies seem to be turning shitty all at once. I’ve seen others propose similar explanations, but the basic idea is that the historically low rates got them addicted to “free” capital. Now the faucet has been slammed shut and they have to make up for the shortfall.

Also, it’s not just big tech at fault. The massive worldwide inflation we’ve experienced happened for the same reason - shortsighted greed.

This is the most disturbing “boring dystopia” thing yet.

What really disturbs me is how the recent tech shenanigans have been a long time coming; seems the internet we have come to know for the last 15 years only existed thanks to the ridiculous interest rates post 2008.

Eh, it’s tech news.