Shocking, just incredible, unbelievable even…

Next up the ministry of truth

I really don’t see that happening. The internet and the real people that build it tend to be innovative tinkerers and hackers. Things get built because there’s a need and someone tries to say they can’t. P2P, darknets, proxies, VPNs, heck the whole concept of the fediverse defies the idea of control by an external entity. So they may try, but the chances are slim it works.

Their solely owned passthrough corporations however are free to invest at will.

Maybe people will be satisfied when they can put their TV under a microscope to determine the actor’s sperm count…

It’s been observed that the porn industry is often one of the first adapters of new media tech before they become commonplace, but I’m not sure some things need to be shown in that high a resolution.

This is one accusation he actually could feasibly back upsince he’s probably on the signal chat where they plan it.

…of things already known and public while keeping the rest locked away.

Just another distracting smokescreen.

I guess I would take it being a US judge as a given. Not that this admin listens to our judges anyhow, bit I expect one from another country would hold even less sway.

Maybe, but immortality also tends to come with things like extraordinary capabilities for self repair and by extension disease resistance, so maybe they get some sort of error correcting code in their DNA replication to go with it.

So it really has come to blatant “fuck you we’re not pretending to play by any rules of courtesy and custom anymore”, and yet it goes on largely unopposed.

Decorum is dead, by most reports I see the left outnumber the right by a sizable margin, stop playing nice.

Like any other account you occasionally need to update software and settings for. Then again I’m guessing you meant someone running an instance with more than just themselves using it.

Articles from 2022 citing ‘if Roe is overturned’ are a bit past their expiration date.

No you see food guy Russia totally volunteered not to do any other than the 800+ that the east was responsible for. Bad Murica!

https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/test-sites/testing-chronology.html

How dare you imply my ego is fragile?! Don’t question me!

And a hedgehog?

In the network formerly known as freenet, forgetting the current name, traffic to and from the node, and the data at rest is all encrypted, only referenced by keys so nobody has a real influence on what they store or transmit. Plus, they only know the peer that made a request, not a source or a destination, so just ‘pass this key back to me if you have it, otherwise ask the next person’, so routing is just as opaque.

In cases like that there’s not much to be done, as it well should be because as soon as control can be performed it’ll be demanded or liability placed on those who don’t comply.

How does one get so self important as to think that someone owes you a megaphone to the point you demand $50M for not letting you spout your drivel?

Indeed, politicians do love to claim power and control wherever they can and kids are a handy excuse often enough.

As to the parents, at least in the USA my take is that so many are overwhelmed with how to handle it that if you get someone in power saying “we will make the internet safe for you, no effort needed” they jump all over it.

I’m in my 40’s and none of the things out there on the web that kids are doing even existed when I was their age, so there are plenty of people who are really the first generation to be sorting out how to deal with this stuff for our kids. Given my work I’m better equiped than most, but it’s still possible to get caught off guard

We have proxies, we have DNS filters, we have pre configured software packages you can install with a few clicks. Net filtering is not all that difficult.

We also have a planet full of people throwing up their hands and passing off responsibility for guiding and watching their kids to ‘someone else’.

It takes effort people, and discussions that can be difficult, and you might need to learn a tech trick or two, but it’s not impossible. Stop screwing everyone over because you want big brother to take care of the hard work for you.