This is why capitalism requires aggressive regulation. Corporations will always choose walled gardens and proprietary protocols. There can never be any guarantee that any org — whether FOSS or for-profit — won’t enshittify a product in even moderate timescales; there are a hundred reasons why.

Therefore, they should never be given that option. If you build a product, you either build everything to be interoperable with an open source, lossless spec, or you don’t get to waste humanities finite resources with your narcissism. If you can’t compete on a level playing field — without holding users ransom and creating artificial barriers to their attrition — then you don’t deserve to compete at all. If you stop supporting/updating hardware, you open source all code required for the anyone else to take over, for the entire feature-set of that product. If you fail to meet the very basic requirement of “don’t be a fuckwit”, your company gets seized and your source code/protocols/patents become public property (FOSS).

This will never happen though, because we live in capitalist plutocracies masquerading as democracy… Sure, you can vote for whoever you want, but 90% of the names on any ballot are a curated, pre-vetted, pre-financed, list of corporate whores.

Luckily you can buy several USB-A to USB-C adapters for ~$1 each, instead of demanding manufacturers persist an outdated spec — that’s been superseded for a decade — and creating significantly more e-waste and headaches for everyone in the long run.

*If I lived with a roommate as unstable narcissistic as capitalism, I’d have moved out a long time ago.

If this is not done, everywhere is going to become a techno fascist dictatorship within the next 2 decades. The data amassed by surveillance capitalism is sold to anyone who’ll pay, including aspiring dictators, authoritarian nation states, criminals, and terrorists. It’s used for everything from scams to — as most of us have seen over the last decade — conducting psychological warfare, spreading disinformation, and inducing mental illness. Mass data collection benefits the most psychopathic, sociopathic, immoral, and unethical criminals, the most … The data economy has only existed for ~15 years, and it’s already being used to destabilise society and overthrow democracy.

They need to go much much further though; banning the sale and sharing of all personalised data, mandatory fines for every data point leaked, and the more personal/unnecessary it is to the business, the greater the fines should be. Amassing and retaining personal data needs to be so risky and expensive that only information vital to very specific and core business functions is collected, and the IT landscape rearchitected for everything else to be E2E encrypted.

Known psychopath, still psychopath. Unsurprising.

And even in the case where there is actual separation, and competition, it will only be temporary!

For the entire planet, prior to the last few hundred years. Religion agreed, because pedos are attracted to power and religious leaders were the most powerful.

Trump will designate Reporters Without Borders a terrorist org, and terrorize their reporters using the state.

Civil liberty and privacy advocates have been saying that surveillance capitalism and dragnet mass surveillance aren’t just a direct attack on our civil liberties, but were a trojan horse that would be used to attack and dismantle democracy if they weren’t heavily restricted.

Neoliberals and conservatives have spent the last 80 years building big brother FOR fascism, and the fascists used all the tools built by surveillance capitalism to stage their coup. Rather ironically, if the tens of trillions spent to build it went to social services instead, fascism 2.0 may have never materialized.

Nobody implied they’re intentionally targeting children with their bombing.

They’re indiscriminately bombing all Palestinians. If they were targeting Hamas, and attempting to limit civilian casualties, you’d see a much higher proportion of adult males.

Well, in the last few years there was that guy politicians labelled a criminal because he inspected a web page and disclosed multiple amateur vulnerabilities.