Those for sure… in the US.
Which international ties to they have? I know Vodafone is present in a lot of countries (the brand, it’s a different company altogether in each country) but don’t know many more… nor do i know of any that has a global monopoly of network nodes.

Them pods are a gigantic rabbit hole. A hare hole if you will.

before corporate takeover.

The good old days, yes.

Illegal aliens.

infrastructure that makes up the internet is owned by like 6 companies.

GAFAM holds a large chunk of social media HTTP/S traffic, plus cloud crap. That’s all application layer.
Do they own main trunk IP routers too?

Those apps and / or the fediverse itself would get sued into the ground and shut down one app or server at a time.

Time to self-host your own instances. Sites like yunohost try to make it easy.

Back when the govt here started incentivizing people to ask for receipts the Prime Minister’s fiscal ID was made public and the fucker starting having a lot of receipts in his name.

one big community and it’s on the one big server

Which you can follow from another server, what’s your point?

We’re going to have internet licenses soon

They’re called contracts with your ISP, they’ve been around for a while now.

Didn’t it all start at DARPA?

Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Corporate Internet

There, FTFY

They are clueless, yet they think they know what we need.

Accurate description of most managers i’ve encountered.

Really want an honest answer here and not a full blown Linux cult answer.

And so you ask in a linux community…

If this is what you truly believe, then welcome back Adolf Hitler.

Perhaps you should learn how to read. And 1/10 for effort trying to offend me, try harder.

I’ll try again: the vast majority supports genocide and there’s minimal resistance there.

In a population of almost 10 million, “thousands” (which, in journalistspeak, can mean 2001 people) is minimal resistance.

I’m not the one dehumanizing people.
Have a nice day - or not, i don’t care.

There are numerous reports that the majority of civilians (say about two thirds) supports the genocide.
The remaining third doesn’t support solely because they don’t wanna see their soldiers in danger.
There’s minimal resistance there.

Because the aliens landed on that mountain and took everyone away.

There’s the red scare, and there’s the nuke scare…

It’s still on my to-do list.

Software suggestions?

Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills.

In my country it’s illegal for the landlord to include utilities in the price.
It’s the responsibility of the tenant to subscribe to those services in their name.
It’s done to prevent landlords from cutting utilities on a whim or to pressure late payments.