What’s behind the pushback?

• Lobbying from Big Autos probably.

Seltzerberg’s entire filmography. If you’ve seen Date Movie, you’ve seen Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, etc, because they’re all the same thing with a different set of clothes on, as it were.

Anything made by Dan Schneider, because he was outed as a huge creep. And even if he hadn’t been outed as a huge creep, the content in most of his shows, especially the foot stuff, is really inappropriate at times in hindsight given those shows were aimed at tweens and teens.

Like, really, Dirty Dan? You think your freaky stuff is appropriate viewing for people who are still in grade school in some cases? No wonder that guy was outed as a creep. And I thought some of his stuff was funny when I was still in his target demo and didn’t even know of the creepy on-set behavior until after I had been aged out of his shows for 20+ years… -sigh- Hindsight sucks.

Also, the guy was really bad about recycling plots from his other properties, eg. iCarly’s plot, being that the older sibling is left to take the place of an absentee parent and care for the younger sibling in their absence, is recycled from What I Like About You, it just replaces the older sister from that property with an older brother, but that’s neither here nor there, I’m just pointing out a lack of originality with that.

Although tbf, Dirty Dan is just a symptom of a far bigger problem in Hollywood. That doesn’t diminish his behavior in any way though, it just points towards deeper systemic rot that he was a result of. His on-set abuse was still awful, but he’s a symptom of Hollywood’s abusive culture, and not the root cause.

The root cause for his behavior is decades of systemic industry-wide unmitigated rot that effectively allows those types of environments, and people like Dirty Dan, to exist in that industry.

Manswers and 1000 Ways to Die are also kinda cringe trash in hindsight as well. Hell, that can be said for basically all of the former Spike TV’s library.

How soon before WINE is included in this?

Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to rent games.

• Ftfy, Dexerto, if something can be taken away from you at any time, you don’t own it, you’re only renting it.

Australia claims it is a global pioneer in killing online speech rights.

• Ftfy, The Guardian.

Signal jammers can directly knock that out, or a hostile government can block meshnets through the legal back door by regulating them out of existence.

Google is one of many companies that really needs to have the Sherman Act invoked against it and to be trust busted as a result.

And no bribing the judge to get their way this time!

Welcome back SOPA.

So abandon everything then?

Also, if you think the Fediverse is gonna be safe from this, then I have bad news for you. Also, decentralized networks in general could be targeted by this sorta thing if what happened to A/I is any indication.

What happened to those Mastodon instances and to A/I is proof that even decentralized networks can be targeted by censorship.

What’s stopping the FCC or your country’s equivalent from locking down HAM regulations?

It’s even sadder when you consider that SOPA caused a mass blackout protest which ultimately got it hidden away until its chance to reappear and this time maybe actually become law.

No one’s doing any sort of mass blackout protests this time around.

What’s stopping the dark web from being blocked?

Not gonna matter when apps and services start blocking Linux, or even worse, should this shit creep up the chain to the ISP level and should ISPs start requiring an Apple, Google, or MS OS just to get online to begin with.

And legislators are actively trying to kill off decentralized power too.

You’d be cut off from most of the web best-case, potentially even the entire web worst-case if this moves up the chain to the ISP level and ISPs start requiring trusted OSes like Android, iOS, Windows, or macOS to even access the web, at which point the entire global web becomes an NK-style intranet, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some legislators are actively considering taking it that far.

That doesn’t stop apps and services from blocking Linux and specifically requiring Windows or Mac.

And hypothetically that reCAPTCHA could also serve as an ID of sorts:

• Any Google account verified 18+ gets full web access.
• Any Google account 14-17 gets mildly restricted access.
• Any Google account 9-13 gets heavily restricted access.
• Any Google account 8 and under or anyone without a Google account is locked out entirely.

… That could be a pretty effective way to completely lock down the web. And then moving everyone back to time-sharing on rented terminals will be the final nail in the coffin for personal computing. If Big Tech gets their way, personal computing could be killed off by thin clients or terminal apps connected to a rented cloud server.

I could easily see things like Discord, Meta, Google, Reddit, and Twitter doing this if it came to that, for instance.