Advertising in my private space on my private hardware in my private software in my private time is an invasion of my privacy. Anyone forcing ads into my domicile is invading my privacy. It’s MY space, not yours.

The solution is not centralization, the solution is a protocol. The team at Flattr tried to do something that worked for content, but it was centralized. The team at Ganxy tried to expand the definition of monetize, but it was centralized. If we had a protocol where teams could publish metadata that enabled users to use any data-driven app to generate some form of compensation for the contributors, then we could build all sorts of workflows into package managers that made it easier.

Yes!

Exactly. Track point is the number one reason

Sucks living in an authoritarian country with a military dictatorship that spies on its citizens at all levels, pumps propaganda into their homes and schools, and if you disagree with any of it the whole society thinks you’re terrorist and tries to “reeducate” you.

Stoa - porch

Stoics - porch philosophers

Stoicism - the philosophy developed by porch philosophers

Because the professional police force was first established to maintain slave society in the South. Then it was extended to maintain wage slavery in the industrial centers. Then when private slavery was abolished they were retooled to re-enslave freed black people by selectively enforcing new laws targeting behaviors of freed people (prison population went from 95% white to 95% black in a decade). Then they were extended to enforce the convict leasing program where the black people that the cops arrested were leased to former slave owners to make profits for the government. Then they were extended to take orders from factory owners to break strikes up to and including murdering unarmed workers. Then they were extended when local cops wouldn’t kill their neighbors, so the state police were built based on the US occupying force in The Philippines.

They have always been this way. They have never stopped being this way. They cannot be reformed. They must be fully demolished and a net new structure must be rebuilt that supercedes the few legitimate parts of their role in society.

This will never happen under capitalism.

It’s worse than collusion. The break up of AT&T resulted in a legal construction of Franchise Agreements that legally granted regional monopolies in all major population centers in the country in a deliberate bid to avoid Sherman antitrust rules. It’s not merely collusion, you literally cannot compete by law.

ISPs in the US are not in a price war with competition, that’s ridiculous. The price per gig has been going down as infrastructure build out happens in the middle mile. In the last mile, prices are still abusively high with predatory bundling contracts. The reason their customer service sucks is because their customers don’t have 30 options. They have at most 2 and in many places they have 1 option.