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   ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 03:20:20 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

   The Internet has no real concept of consent. It goes too roughly against so many business models. Reading Google's inaugural white paper on search and advertising, that was their effective declaration.

   Now we have app stores that make money on re-boosting apps filled to the brim with ads, a known vector of malware and resource drain. A Web that "relies on it" because companies fight so hard against municipal and communal Internet resources. And the foot soldiers (unknowingly or not) whose identities and stability rely on this digital abuse.

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     ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 03:20:17 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

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     If a company can take money to support immigration detention centers (like Microsoft and ICE), or general apartheid and censorship (like Google and Palestine+China) or fund and back violent labor practices in remote locations (like Apple, Samsung and LG in China+Mexico+Chile and other parts of the global South), they can start to wash their hands by either funding efforts to improve privacy or instead build their moats through culturally shielding campaigns (like self-praise on building worker pipelines with some of the highest rates of attrition in the industry) or doubling down on anti-user-privacy efforts (by preventing browser choice or increasing the difficulty of one's ability to protect oneself from the corporate-sponsored violence of the Internet).

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     ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 03:20:18 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

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     Companies like this need the rest of the world (and primarily the developer community) to believe myths about our ability to understand and build things the same way the United States government and media worked to build a climate of fear around crime (both in the 90s and post-9/11). It's effectively baked into the devices we use because we can't push back against VPs at these behemoths; their investors refuse such logic.

     Hence my wariness of folks who claim "opinions my own"; but pockets are _lined_ by these practices with no evidence of pushing against these narratives.

     carl marks repeated this.