https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47552698

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=bH1cQIu9GGw
so google released an extension that does the opposite of Dissenter
https://www.businesstelegraph.co.uk/jigsaws-new-chrome-extension-will-tune-out-toxic-youtube-twitter-facebook-disqus-comments-9to5google/

huh. i wonder how it decides what counts as toxic? probably everything i've ever posted online would end up being filtered out as toxic.

...well, not everything. i do tend to put a lot of "awwwwww'" comments on pictures of pitbull puppies.

then again, they're pitties so anything related to them would be toxic.

no winning on that one i guess.

Anything that's wrongthink, of course

you could actualy try out to see what was considered toxic lol

they had a website before

like a year or two ago

ppl typed in random shit and it told u if it was toxic or not

as usual, if u trashed whites or men or straights, it was not considered toxic lmfao

https://imgflip.com/i/2vy9qq

That's how tune will work.

yeah basically lol

I take no issue if the opposition wants to hide their heads in the sand

They're going to make you hide your head soon too comrade.

Not a viable strategy unless we go full China and then also outdo their efficiency in catching people skipping past it

nah, they'll just ruin chrome by putting it into your browser.

then tell you to make your own browser.

You mean like the multitude of other browsers that already exist?

Plus it's all FOSS. You can just fork it

They'll regulate those out of existence.

and block payment processors.

Regulate what? An entire software license?

Block payment processors to volunteer projects? Ban old versions of software?

Somebody will try, I'm sure

Like I know this is, to a certain extent, shitposting, but I just want to make it super clear that attempting to take over FOSS is like laying claim to language. You can certainly try, but you won't do much

Like the big Linux scare

It's like taking over Webster's dictionary and people saying English is ruined forever

I know its impossible to do (I work in software) but you can make it very VERY costly.

there's a reason why people are afraid of apple's legal team.

and there have been attempts in the past to copyright sections of code, or designs that were FOSS.

while they don't work in the long run, they can ruin your life getting there.

also liberals HAVE taken over websters and ruined it.

If we're just talking about abusive lawsuits, that applies to basically anything. That said, it won't destroy the work itself. At worst, people won't be able to update a fork without a change or rebrand

Like what happened to Nexuiz/Xonotic
And Websters being fucked didn't ruin English though, is my point

and while didn't ruin english it has warped definitions of things so that its impossible to have real discussions about things.

I would argue that's just academic circles and not websters dictionary, though the stage of the latter is the result of the former

have you ever read any radical socialist/communist litterature?

Read the Manifesto my dude (boring af). Also read Rules for Radicals and got a small list of other similar books to read