Discussion: Online Piracy, Net Neutrality, Killswitch, and Other Internet Issues II

It will be shut down as wholly unconstituitional, something Republicans keep having trouble with. They will blatantly make an illegal law like this censorship bull**** then whine how certain rights like privacy are not in the Constitution and want to destroy them. They can't seem to decide which side of the Constiution they want to be on.

 

The internet should be unconstitutional in the bat**** insane world of Alito and his brethren, if it's not 'deeply rooted in American history.' But you know for the right wing the ends justify the means and double standards and consistency mean nothing.

 

‘It's a Bloodbath’: The Crypto Crash Is Real - VICE



I just hope the fallout doesn't damage too many economies including those governments who have hitched their wagons to this.

 

I find it difficult to feel sorry for people who deliberately invest in scams.

 

The good thing about this it will disrupt NFTs.

 

Forbes - $1 Trillion Crypto Meltdown—Huge Crash Wipes Out The Price Of Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Cardano, Solana, Terra’s Luna And Avalanche

Reuters - Crypto meltdown deepens as stablecoin Tether drops below dollar peg

Panic in the crypto market has Janet Yellen's attention | CNN Business

 

Crypto’s going downhill at a good time. Will it be enough though to stop this is the question.

 

Part of me hopes they were paid in crypto.

 

Reminds of the Super Bowl in 2000 where all the dot coms were heavily featured advertising just before the bubble burst. But at least those companies had way more value to society than crypto does.

Wired - These Crypto Super Bowl Ads Feel Like Pets.com All Over Again (February 2022)
Dot-Com Super Bowl, meet Crypto Bowl...

If they can find a new group of hype-makers and marks they can pump it up again before it goes downhill again.

 

This is why I stay away from the newest money making schemes. They inevitably always go bust and take a lot of people with them. Will crypto currency ever be viable? Sure, but it is nowhere near that right now and a lot of this is just wasting your money.

 

The regulations to make crypto "viable" are the exact same kind of regulations crypto was created to bypass.

 

I am sure there is some compromise where it can be regulated and yet retain some of its anonymity although I think it is more likely we'll just use digital currency at some point in the future and this current experiment will be a dead end.

 

Gizmodo - Facebook Killed News Feed Fix for Fear of Conservative Backlash: Docs
Facebook said it did not "build and withhold any News Feed changes based on potential impact on any one political party.” Internal documents say otherwise.

 

Gizmodo - This Is How Often Online Ads Are Auctioning Off Your Data Every Day
Advertisers—and shady ad middlemen—are paying to violate your privacy hundreds of times every day you're online.

 

Ironicaly, video games are kind of creating environments for radicalization.

Just not in the way the "think of the children" think.

 

Gizmodo - Meta [AKA Facebook] Donated $4 Million to a Supposedly ‘Grassroots’ Lobbying Firm to Fight Antitrust Bills on Its Behalf

 

Reuters - Apple sued after loud Amber Alert on AirPods said to damage Texas boy's hearing

 

Those Amber Alert noises are excessive. I have had them go off after midnight and they can wake an entire house.

 

Gizmodo - [Meta/Facebook head] Zuckerberg Targeted by DC Attorney General in New Suit Over Facebook Misusing User Data

 

DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Thought]

You can say the same about the VPN scams that run the same privacy gimmick.

 

The Washington Post - First she documented the alt-right. Now she’s coming for crypto.
Molly White, a veteran Wikipedia editor, is fast becoming the cryptocurrency world’s biggest critic

Her website: Web3 Is Going Just Great

 

Gizmodo - Meta’s Metaverse Is Already Populated With the Worst Examples of Internet Behavior: Report
Researchers who spent time on Meta’s Horizon Worlds said that users' misogyny and racism is an issue for a company that's failed to moderate bad behavior.

Gizmodo - [Facebook COO] Sheryl Sandberg Quits Facebook

 

Which is all the more reason for me to avoid their Metaverse.