For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

Student loans were guaranteed way back in boomer days too. So that would be a non-difference.

Back when China was the low cost manufacturing center for the global system, ‘free trade’ was all the rage. Now that China’s economy is displacing the US/GB axis as the center of the global system, suddenly free trade is not such a good idea.

So they are attempting to defend themselves against a well armed militarized police force. How dare they!

What free open society?

Bought out by a PE leveraged shitshow. Disaster was inevitable.

Google made about $766 million a day last year.

Nope. My toast just fell into the bottom of the toaster oven. I was like ‘who ate one of my precious toasties!’. I blamed the dogs. Then I found it. I didn’t apologize. Dogs are stupid.

Same way Iran China Russia etc do it. Put up a Great Firewall, block all the people not protesting anything from accessing their psychosis generating social media sites, meanwhile the protesters all figure out how to work around it. The benefit to the government is that it pisses off the non-participants and makes it easier for the government to crush dissent.

That sounds difficult. They would have to make a lot of exceptions in order to not shut down their economy. I’ve worked in China. Every foreign corporate building had a vpn allowed through the firewall, all the chinese workers had access to the global internet. It was a giant gushing hole. I think I asked and my chinese colleagues said that lots of chines tech companies also had global access. Now of course I also assume that the Chinese government monitored all the leaks, as they monitor everything else, as do we.