Barx
@Barx@hexbear.net
- Comment on OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days” 1 week ago:
lmao okay buddy
- Comment on Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes 5 weeks ago:
Governments have frequently laundered the surveillance state as “child protection” laws, pushing for a cozy relationship between companies with data and cops et al. They want the ability to snoop more or less whenever they want and will push in that direction. This kind of relationship is not just for cops, though. The same companies also gladly work with and hire people from intelligence agencies to craft narratives and manipulate sentiment. When a company doesn’t play that role as well as feds want, the hammer comes down (TikTok, Telegram).
Though really, the actual question is why they are writing this article and why now. The answer is that Durov has been arrested and the author is attempting to justify it by piling on “Telegram is bad” claims while avoiding discussing the actual legal basis and evidence around his arrest. You will also note the sources used in this article are entirely government officials and NGOs in the constellation of NGOs that work directly with the government - or are unsourced stipulations. No academics were cited, nor free speech advocacy groups, or even lawyers.
- Comment on Helixx wants to bring fast-food economics and Netflix pricing to EVs 2 months ago:
Capitalists love to rent-seek
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 3 months ago:
More honest headline: Dell created intolerable working conditions so that they could engage in constructive dismissal and avoid paying for unemployment for their massive layoffs.
- Comment on T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next 3 months ago:
Monopoly capitalists did the most monopoly capitalist thing ever, journalists are surprised.
- Comment on Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War 3 months ago:
Yes that’s correct. The empire is not consistent. Its stated principles are empty propaganda intended to build national myths for their populations to believe in support of the actual material goals of that empire. They want you to hate Russia so that when they create policies that marginalize Russia you think, “yeah, serves them right” not, “is that fair? Don’t we do the same things or worse and get away with it?” Same for attempts to marginalize China. They’re coming up with words the public has never even heard of (productive overcapacity) to justify their new tariffs and if the public were told “this just makes your stuff more expensive in an attempt to hurt China” they’d throw a fit if the propaganda apparatus hadn’t already taught the public that China is the enemy always doing evil things.
The real driving force is always a deepee material interest. Who can fund the propaganda narrative, what is the intended national or corporate interest.