User:JodyBruchonFan
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The corporate bullshit bingo!
by JodyBruchonFan | ||||
| "innovation" | "courage" | "trusted" | "sustainability" | "industry leader" |
| "upgrade" | "confident" | "(cyber)security", "safety", "feel safe" | "we understand..., but..." | "intellectual property" |
| "our mission", "our commitment" | "streamlined", "seamless" | "protect" | "empower" | "unauthorized" |
| "we strive" | "unprecedented" | "integrity" | "(re)shape", "refine" | "genuine" |
| "pushing boundaries" | "community" | "rights" | "redefine", "reinvent", "revolutionize" | "explore" |
One of my favourite songs: Manny the Martyr - Be That Way, also known as the Jody Bruchon theme song! And it is in the public domain!
DRM = Digital Restrictions Malware.
Even if the DMCA disappeared today, the damage done in decades under its stranglehold will not be undone anytime soon.
I honestly used to believe this "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" nonsense. Now I know how wrong I was. Why privacy matters even if you have nothing to hide - The Hated One.
This is a WAR on privacy and YOU are the enemy. - The Hated One
It's time to cut off Great Britain and Australia from the Internet.
If Google were honest
[edit | edit source]Of course, nothing we do will change Google's mind about their technofascist developer verification program, but what we can do is make fun of the absurdity of their propaganda.
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Original -
Brick edition -
Fewer apps -
Showering you with corporate buzzwords -
disconnected
Do not accept the premise of assholes - Louis Rossmann
Do not rely on Google services for anything long-term.
"Google is an archive in the same way a supermarket is a food museum." - Jason Scott Sadofsky.
To download means to own. (Without YouTube Premium's data lock-in!)
The main purpose of YouTube is downloading videos to keep them alive after they are taken down from YouTube and after YouTube inevitably shuts down.
YouTube employee who reads this: **TRIGGERED**
The video Google doesn't want you to see
[edit | edit source](Original YouTube URL - removed for unspecified violations.)
Ice piracy
[edit | edit source]The fridge and freezer made externally produced ice nearly obsolete. See "How The Fridge Destroyed One of the World's Largest Monopolies" by Veritasium, at 18 minutes.
If a freezer was invented in today's political environment, the establishment would have labelled it "ice piracy".
When established authorities (like MPAA, RIAA, Disney, ...) meet competition (like Internet file sharing), they simply ban their competition (DMCA).
... and then, before you know it, copyright law was updated to take the Internet into account.
- The Tragic Fall Of µTorrent - NationSquid, 5:48
[Copyright] is a mechanism that by definition smothers true, useful progress -- in a world that advanced technologically so much that it is already possible to freely copy and share information instantly, with zero cost, with anyone anywhere, copyright tries to set up artificial measures to prevent this so as to keep the old ways of allowing only the privileged to copy and publish intellectual works, it is quite literally force sustaining mechanism of Middle Ages.
- Miloslav Číž, Czech philosopher.
See also "food piracy" in "Cream by David Firth" (8:07) (mirrors: Dailymotion, Internet Archive), and Why copyright makes no sense | The case against intellectual property by The Hated One.
Every website with no decentralized backups will eventually be lost to history.
Issue: No Backup, No Distribution
For reasons and examples stated in this article, any centralized web-based service will go offline some day. Some sooner, some later. Popularity is not even a guarantee that a service gets continued, as you can see with hundreds of (partly) very well known and widely used Google services that were shut down. Nothing will be on the web forever. Most people are not aware of this fact.
Whenever I tell people that we need to plan for the day when YouTube goes offline, I mostly receive weird reactions. It seems to be the case that people can't think of YouTube being gone. Unfortunately, I'm convinced that most people will face the day when we lose this enormous library of videos.
Anti-features like Google Chrome's mandatory pull-to-refresh are "helpful" to the user in the same way SpongeBob was "helpful" to Squidward in the episode "The Paper".
Noticing similar patterns
[edit | edit source]When I hear Google saying they want to "keep Android open" (Android Developer Verification) while blatantly doing the opposite, I am instantly reminded of that scene where Bryant Moreland (EDP445) claimed he was just looking for a cupcake. Similar levels of shamelessness, and similar in taking advantage of people with little recourse, even though within different contexts. I am not going to explain the story with Moreland here; you can go look it up if you don't already know.
While what Moreland was trying to do was more serious on a small scale and was easily thwarted, what Google is doing with their developer verification program happens on a much larger scale. It impacts potentially over a hundred million people worldwide.
From the Merriam Webster dictionary:
predator [noun]:
[...]
2 : one who injures or exploits others for personal gain or profit
Businessmen, he believed, were often predators … — Nathan Glick
(souce: Merriam Webster, bolded for emphasis)
Things that make you go hmmmmm....
EDP445
If it can be remotely disabled, you don't own it.
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