Message from @Atkins
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Is Matt on TISM?
what would happen to google if china stopped censoring but google kept their censor code
think google would stay on top long?
take down jones, thats one thing. but then h3? gab? the more they force people to make competition, the more they make themselves irrelevant.
Most people in China use Baidu.
Microsoft starts blocking conservatives from using windows, they will just switch to linux
an operating system for techies would start to quickly become normal.
ISPs start blocking whole communities those communities might stop paying them for internet and set up their own communal node instead
i wouldn't mind the normalization of more user-friendly linux based OS's
Not just a banning, but an unpersoning attempt.
Most people aren't tech savvy enough to use Linux or Tor.
I wont say never
linux is not hard to us
but Linux will *probably* never be mainstream
Not for you.
You are not most people.
Ubuntu has a gui that most windows users can figure out
as much as I like open source
and there are other versions which are even more windows like
proprietary actually has benefit at the OS level
something like mint could become mainstream with kids being more and more tech savvy than their parents
we can debate if you like
but it's true
and mint itself being pretty simple
besides, what option would they have if windows blocked them
I don't think MS will block anyone
they like money too
they threatened gab
they have threatened that they monitor what you write in word
Gab is not an individual user.
Linux being technically difficult is overblown. Not everything is Gentoo install tier
did we forget that little policy change from earlier this year?
Sure.
when they said they were monitoring your documents in office?
i hope they like history
and they are making their products more and more integrated. I would not be surprised if they are trying to make windows more a service than an OS.
looooong papers
Windows is a service