Nah. You just don't understand how uneducated, indoctrinated, and mentally-ill American conservatives are.
90+% of them absolutely have no fucking idea what the difference between a classical liberal or neoliberal is. Conservatives are closer to neoliberals than classical liberals. They don't care though, because they've been indoctrinated with the mental illness of fascism.
People shouldn't have to think about what companies are going to fuck them over or exploit them as they go about their daily lives. The modern world is far too complex. The government is supposed to protect the people from criminals and enemies, foreign and domestic, no matter what their organization or motives are.
As it stands, most of surveillance capitalism is criminal espionage — just a fascist/authoritarian invasion of privacy — and would be illegal if our political classes weren't corrupt criminals themselves, pre-financed and pre-positioned by the oligarchs/plutocrats of the economic elite. The current clusterfuck is an illusion of "democracy" that is functionally-equivalent to capitalist dictatorship, where our governments actively collude with businesses to extract wealth from the population.
What I'm saying is that no appliance software should be surveilling you, period. None of the data brokers should exist. Most data collection and sharing that isn't explicitly necessary to deliver a service should be illegal. People should be free to live in a world where the greatest concerns when buying a TV are the build quality, features, and UI. Not fucking covert malware or espionage. What is currently considered normal and acceptable is psychotic.
Statistical models are not technically algorithms; they are a heuristic which "approximates" a solution probabilistically. They use algorithms to function and operate on data (like everything a computer does) but they are not algorithms themselves.
The main thing they have to do is clearly define that results derived by statistical modeling are opt-in, set limits on what personal data can be used to present content, and ensure there are significant penalties for crippling the experience of everyone who hasn't opted-in, which all are guaranteed to do to force users to opt-in.
They should define a bare minimum baseline of data points that should be made available to users to control the content they want to see using non-statistical algorithms (e.g. time, location, content type or popularity, friends/subs/followed only or ones they recommend themselves, etc). They should also define that opt-in/out (enabling and disabling statistical model results) should be a part of the main filter UI that uses the aforementioned data points; a simple toggle at the top of their page/feed, permanently visible and near-instantly applicable; otherwise they're guaranteed to hide it away and make opt-in/out a major friction point.
Basically you need to treat them like they're sociopathic criminals who will never act in good faith voluntarily, because all multinationals and large corporations are lead by criminally corrupt sociopaths.
They aren't even threatening to imprison Trump or the nazi party for their crimes anymore. They aren't using their power to inspect ICE facilities or making a coordinated, public effort to document all the crimes. There are over 250 Dem reps in Washington and most of them are silent, taking the extended leave the nazi party granted; occasionally virtue signaling on the nazi xitter platform; settling into the kleptocracy and taking part in the corruption, the same as the Dem majority always has.
The cause is capitalism. Every company is driven by an insatiable profit motive to endlessly grow, and extract as much value from consumers and employees as possible, like a cancer.
We should definitely keep letting the criminals in the economic elite extract our fossil fuels and put them in the atmosphere. We shouldn't tax them heavily for the privilege either.
Now watch as "liberals" continue to do nothing to stop the fascist propaganda machines causing the spread of the mental illness, because they are bankrolled by the fascists in the corporate economic elite.
They'll also continue sowing the seeds of fascism by colluding with the elite to extract wealth from the population. Buckle up. All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
Why wouldn't they? They already have lawyers and lobbyists of the economic elite ghost writing most shit they propose. Abdicating the illusion of democracy to some techno fascist AI is the logical next step.
The problem with that is the vast majority have no idea how pervasive and oppressive surveillance capitalism truly is. If they knew that the data from their various devices and services was being aggregated by thousands of data brokers, and could be used by employers to pay them lower wages, or businesses to charge them higher prices, or insurance to deny them healthcare, or cyber criminals to scam them, most would be genuinely shocked that most of this shit is "legal".
The other problem is that there's no way to opt out of techno fascism. They are free to stalk you for profit and there's nothing you can do about it. Even if you live in a faraday cage they'll still amass data on you. It's hard to take a moral stance when you think they're gonna fuck you every which way regardless.
And that probably doesn't even make the top ten in the list of corrupt shit he's done this year.
The most concerning thing about this stat, is when you realize roughly 30% of Americans are so mentally ill from propaganda that they believe him and his fascist cronies are the "goodies" fighting corruption.
This is terrible for privacy, and can be exploited by bad actors in a multitude of ways far worse than AI slop. A better option would be the ability to load your own cryptographic key into a device and "sign" images with an open standardized protocol in such a way that you can prove you took the image with x camera, and have the option to publicly attest that it was signed by your key at the moment of creation, but the camera images can't be cross referenced to a specific individual or camera otherwise. If someone is posting unmodified content to social media, it's in their interests to sign and attest that authenticity. You could also give users the choice to hide everything not attested.
This is how software is signed and released by (not shit) developers currently. It's also optional, so you can write and release code anonymously if you choose.
Like "states rights", what they really mean is "localized tyranny". They only wish it to be the law of the land when it aligns with their tyranny and fascism... because they are sociopathic traitorous criminals who do not value the meaning of words beyond the power and control it grants them in bad faith.
To any fascist, dictator, or authoritarian the rule of law is nothing more than a rope to hang you with. It does not apply to them; only to their opposition.
A search engine presenting people with the most expensive/profitable options via an AI is "manipulating prices".
They are almost certainly presenting options based on what is most profitable to them, but instead of search where it says "sponsored" and you can scroll through list of links, they assertively provide you with the option, or a selected subset. That is an abuse of power by a criminal cartel monopoly.
You just earned yourself a "NeolibSimp" label.
Nah. You just don't understand how uneducated, indoctrinated, and mentally-ill American conservatives are.
90+% of them absolutely have no fucking idea what the difference between a classical liberal or neoliberal is. Conservatives are closer to neoliberals than classical liberals. They don't care though, because they've been indoctrinated with the mental illness of fascism.
It's more likely that the government is compromised by other for-profit interests, and most shit legislation is intentionally hamstrung or loop holed.
People shouldn't have to think about what companies are going to fuck them over or exploit them as they go about their daily lives. The modern world is far too complex. The government is supposed to protect the people from criminals and enemies, foreign and domestic, no matter what their organization or motives are.
As it stands, most of surveillance capitalism is criminal espionage — just a fascist/authoritarian invasion of privacy — and would be illegal if our political classes weren't corrupt criminals themselves, pre-financed and pre-positioned by the oligarchs/plutocrats of the economic elite. The current clusterfuck is an illusion of "democracy" that is functionally-equivalent to capitalist dictatorship, where our governments actively collude with businesses to extract wealth from the population.
What I'm saying is that no appliance software should be surveilling you, period. None of the data brokers should exist. Most data collection and sharing that isn't explicitly necessary to deliver a service should be illegal. People should be free to live in a world where the greatest concerns when buying a TV are the build quality, features, and UI. Not fucking covert malware or espionage. What is currently considered normal and acceptable is psychotic.
Statistical models are not technically algorithms; they are a heuristic which "approximates" a solution probabilistically. They use algorithms to function and operate on data (like everything a computer does) but they are not algorithms themselves.
The main thing they have to do is clearly define that results derived by statistical modeling are opt-in, set limits on what personal data can be used to present content, and ensure there are significant penalties for crippling the experience of everyone who hasn't opted-in, which all are guaranteed to do to force users to opt-in.
They should define a bare minimum baseline of data points that should be made available to users to control the content they want to see using non-statistical algorithms (e.g. time, location, content type or popularity, friends/subs/followed only or ones they recommend themselves, etc). They should also define that opt-in/out (enabling and disabling statistical model results) should be a part of the main filter UI that uses the aforementioned data points; a simple toggle at the top of their page/feed, permanently visible and near-instantly applicable; otherwise they're guaranteed to hide it away and make opt-in/out a major friction point.
Basically you need to treat them like they're sociopathic criminals who will never act in good faith voluntarily, because all multinationals and large corporations are lead by criminally corrupt sociopaths.
They aren't even threatening to imprison Trump or the nazi party for their crimes anymore. They aren't using their power to inspect ICE facilities or making a coordinated, public effort to document all the crimes. There are over 250 Dem reps in Washington and most of them are silent, taking the extended leave the nazi party granted; occasionally virtue signaling on the nazi xitter platform; settling into the kleptocracy and taking part in the corruption, the same as the Dem majority always has.
What makes you think they haven't flagged everyone associated with the instance as terrorists?
They've made it clear that every antifascist is a terrorist, and an enemy of the US gov. That's not gonna change because you take down a server.
The cause is capitalism. Every company is driven by an insatiable profit motive to endlessly grow, and extract as much value from consumers and employees as possible, like a cancer.
We should definitely keep letting the criminals in the economic elite extract our fossil fuels and put them in the atmosphere. We shouldn't tax them heavily for the privilege either.
Now watch as "liberals" continue to do nothing to stop the fascist propaganda machines causing the spread of the mental illness, because they are bankrolled by the fascists in the corporate economic elite.
They'll also continue sowing the seeds of fascism by colluding with the elite to extract wealth from the population. Buckle up. All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
The Weimar Republic did the same god damn thing.
Why wouldn't they? They already have lawyers and lobbyists of the economic elite ghost writing most shit they propose. Abdicating the illusion of democracy to some techno fascist AI is the logical next step.
The problem with that is the vast majority have no idea how pervasive and oppressive surveillance capitalism truly is. If they knew that the data from their various devices and services was being aggregated by thousands of data brokers, and could be used by employers to pay them lower wages, or businesses to charge them higher prices, or insurance to deny them healthcare, or cyber criminals to scam them, most would be genuinely shocked that most of this shit is "legal".
The other problem is that there's no way to opt out of techno fascism. They are free to stalk you for profit and there's nothing you can do about it. Even if you live in a faraday cage they'll still amass data on you. It's hard to take a moral stance when you think they're gonna fuck you every which way regardless.
Criminals and traitors hold a criminal and traitor convention.
It's almost like capitalism is incompatible with democracy.
The difference is that the hoarder and cat lady don't own fortune magazine, and entire propaganda networks to normalize their crimes.
knife fight it is
And that probably doesn't even make the top ten in the list of corrupt shit he's done this year.
The most concerning thing about this stat, is when you realize roughly 30% of Americans are so mentally ill from propaganda that they believe him and his fascist cronies are the "goodies" fighting corruption.
This is terrible for privacy, and can be exploited by bad actors in a multitude of ways far worse than AI slop. A better option would be the ability to load your own cryptographic key into a device and "sign" images with an open standardized protocol in such a way that you can prove you took the image with x camera, and have the option to publicly attest that it was signed by your key at the moment of creation, but the camera images can't be cross referenced to a specific individual or camera otherwise. If someone is posting unmodified content to social media, it's in their interests to sign and attest that authenticity. You could also give users the choice to hide everything not attested.
This is how software is signed and released by (not shit) developers currently. It's also optional, so you can write and release code anonymously if you choose.
Like "states rights", what they really mean is "localized tyranny". They only wish it to be the law of the land when it aligns with their tyranny and fascism... because they are sociopathic traitorous criminals who do not value the meaning of words beyond the power and control it grants them in bad faith.
To any fascist, dictator, or authoritarian the rule of law is nothing more than a rope to hang you with. It does not apply to them; only to their opposition.
A search engine presenting people with the most expensive/profitable options via an AI is "manipulating prices".
They are almost certainly presenting options based on what is most profitable to them, but instead of search where it says "sponsored" and you can scroll through list of links, they assertively provide you with the option, or a selected subset. That is an abuse of power by a criminal cartel monopoly.