That is absolutely what has BEEN happening!

All throughout the 2010s there was a battle for net neutrality. We lost that fight.

Then they put in the scanners for TSA that take full body nude photos whenever you fly. You can “opt out”, but they intentionally make it a hassle, and make it feel like YOU’RE the asshole for not wanting yourprivacy invaded like that.

Then all the appliances in your home started getting smart, so the internet was slowly becoming less of a luxery, and more of a requirement. Let an entire generation grow up without knowing a world without internet.

Then comes the tracking. We’re entering this phase now.

And eventually you’ll be isolated from society if you don’t consent to being tracked.

I have never had a facebook account. Yet facebook knows my name, my face, my phone number, my address. All of this was never consented by me. You know who did consent to it? My mom. She put me in her contacts list on her phone. She willingly entered all that info, uploaded a photo, and saved it to her phones contacts. Then she downloaded the facebook app. Which promptly asked her if she’d like to import her contacts list into her facebook contacts.

And it’s true that officially facebook isn’t technically part of the government. However, these mega corporations are all in bed with the government. Whatever they want, under this corrupt fascist government, it’s theirs for the taking. Nothing a little bribe can’t solve.

And now you got ICE out on the streets, downloading databases of who they want to oppress, where they live, what they look like.

It’s ALL connected. You are a frog slowly boiling. You don’t think the water is hot because you keep getting used to the tempature increases.

Day 1: Age declaration laws.

Then the public gets used to it. It becomes the norm.

Day 30: Age verification digital ID laws.

“But I don’t have anything to hide!”

Society gets used to it.

Day 60: Always on live digital monitoring stream

“Well I’M not doing anything wrong, and it’s to protect children”

Day 90: Always live camera video/audio feed inside your house.

“Well I don’t have anything to hide! And it’s to help find child predators.”

Ect ect ect ect ect.

The thing to remember here is, they wouldn’t bypass child protection COPPA laws to install age verification if it really was meant to protect children.

Also, YOU don’t get to decide if you have nothing to worry about. YOU don’t get to decide if you’ve done nothing wrong. That’s for the fascists to decide. You won’t know until it’s too late.

How big is the torrent, and where do I download from?

Sorry. You gotta go to jail now. Your toddler grabbed a juicy juice box from your smart refridgerator without being 18+.

Thats my plan.

I work a job at an airport assisting the elderly and disabled with wheelchair assistance.

I cannot tell you, literally cannot tell you how many people sit in my wheelchair, and IMMEDIATELY start talking about the weather.

Uggghhhhhh!

I would be pleasantly surprised if the conversation instead was like this:

“So, hows your day going?”

“I murdered my wife and kids last night. Then I ate their corpses…”

“Really? That’s fantastic. Hey, what operating system are you using?”

Feels weird upvoting this comment. I have to remind myself. It’s not you I’m mad at. You’re not the one doing this. You’re just the messanger.

Me: Using 11 year old PC. Originally rjnning Windows 7. Now running ZorinOS.

I don’t particularly like linux, but…

looks at Windows 10…11…now 12…

Yeah, fuck that dumpster fire.

Thats my one complaint about Lemmy. It only gives content for like 3-4 hours. How am I supposed to take a shit for 7 hours at work, with such little content and comments???

I feel like I read every comment on this site. I’m wrong, obviously, but thats how it feels.

I love when people comment. You should comment 400x more everyday. Everyone should! Tell us everything! What’s your life story? How was your childhood? Did you have a bully? Did you punch them in the nose? Did you win the science fair? Did you play football? How were your college years? Did you drink 3 bottles of Bacardi 151, and wake up in Michigan in a hotel room filled with 7 lemurs, in a room paid for by Rick Morranis with zero explaination of how you even got to Michigan?

FEED THE MACHINE!!! ATTENTION SPANS DWINDLE!!! ADHD IS REAL!!! OOOOHHHH!!! I SEE A PUPPY OUTSIDE!!!

runs outside to play with a puppy before you can respond

See, here’s the big open secret. All these politicians, who make all these rules? They don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. They think a kernel is something that gets stuck in your teeth whrn you eat corn.

Simple solution. From now on Linux distros should ship with a big message “NOT FOR USE IN CALIFORNIA”.

You want to force age verification? No server in all of California will run. Period.

…you want us to get together and moan with each other? Buddy! I didn’t know this was that kind of app!

Kinda feels like at this point it’s not “if”. It’s “when”.

“Who is your daddy, and what does he do?”

What is converser.eu, and can I use it to deliver french fries to my mouth?

Oh yeah? What’s your favorite curse word, and what’s your favorite display of violent imagery.

Me personally I’m partial to the french killing the wealthy with a guillitine.

You posted this 2 hours ago. However I read this same post yesterday.

…you a bot?

Oh. Didn’t realize the contracts were just 6 months long. I thought they were more like 10 years or something.

Depends on how long the contract is, and who the administration is when that happens.

That may all be true and all, but other services aren’t one guy.

It would be like signing up for a fediverse instance, which uses closed source software, and it’s just one guy running the service for a small amount of people.

I don’t know who runs Lemmy.world, but at no point do I think the admins are targeting me, to read through my inbox. My judgement says that’s not what the admins are doing with their time.

But this myspace clone had 300ish registered members on a single centralized closed source platform being run and created by one guy with zero oversight. I can’t say that he created the service specifically to spy on people, but it certainly doesn’t pass the sniff test.