Yliaster

You say non free SMS messages as if it’s otherwise “free”, but the product is you.

Utility or privacy, it’s your pick. If you value privacy more, you won’t give in to utility.

Government apps are the only one I think are hard to do without.

People should just stop being so addicted to convenience.

Quit internet banking and cardless payments.

He’s a molester, what makes you think this would be an issue for him?

Wasn’t rhetorical, was intended to ask for your reasoning in more specific terms.

Allow me to rephrase.

Do you think it is likely for voting to create a difference?

There is nothing constitutional about the US and how it operates anymore.

Do politicians still have your faith?

Goodbye!

That’s a fallacious argument. It’s like saying using a laptop made in 2026 is the exact same as using a laptop made in 2010 for privacy standards. News flash, it ain’t.

The killswitches in question wouldn’t apply to all new vehicles, or well, they would just be EVs, because they’re planning to ban regular vehicles.

Not all GPT users are American/residing in America

Even foss is under attack. Linux (amongst other OS) are being forced to comply with integrating OS-level age verification checks, which means invading privacy and contributing to mass surveillance.

People have been arrested for developing end-to-end encryption too.

Them being electric/having digital components lets companies monitor your vehicles the same way they do monitor your online presence.

You can look up the killswitch thing, it’s planned in Europe iirc. It’s being sold as being introduced so as to “reduce drunk driving”, but obviously once that’s in place it can be used to manufacture car accidents and the sort.

Any time someone says these “technological advancements” are anything but innocuous, they get rammed as “fear-mongering”.

Gonna get blasted for this, given the overall sentiment here in the comments towards EVs, but EVs are going to be used to monitor people everywhere they go and have killswitches, and other shit I’d not wanna deal with.

Microslop.

Why is curbing use unideal?

Further, self-control and attention span are not measures of intelligence.

You can be restrained and/or have a long attention span and still not be intelligent.

My primary concern was that last bit you wrote: e2ee doesn’t necessarily guarantee anything; corporate overlords like Meta has abused it and iirc the British government is starting to fuck with e2ee too.

Does e2ee even mean anything anymore?

Can you (or someone) explain like I’m 5?

thanks for pointing that out.

I’m not sure how this benefits the big corporations then. Surely they don’t have a deathwish? And aren’t stupid/incompetent enough to not see that? Else they’d not have gotten this big, right?

How do you do that?? I want to poison em

What about all the user data they sell to third parties? I’d be interested in knowing how that contributes to this