Because his deadline was today and his sim hadn’t arrived. “Waiting an extra day” is not an option.

“In theory”? More like “Move fast and break society.”

What is the point of comments like this? Yes, we realize this. Are you just hearing about it? Do we really have to face each new horror with admonishments that it is distracting us from the last horror?

How much of the economy in the 60s was telecommunications vs how much of the economy today relies on the internet?

3-5 companies in a sector is an oligopoly, which acts nearly the same as a monopoly. This is not “actual competition”.

All of these companies cornered their own markets, and now they own the backbone of the internet.

If we broke up all of them and required open standards and interoperability then other companies could innovate.

AWS needs to be broken up way more than Ma Bell ever did. We need to have open protocols developed so that there can be actual competition.

The question isn’t “why does Signal use AWS?” It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

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She was misquoted (although the meaning should have been clear). This isn’t just “cloud” and bears no resemblance to a web server you spun up at home. This sort of world spanning tech stack is not something any company can build themselves, and there are only 3 or 4 companies that could host Signal.

The world’s Internet infrastructure basically supports civilization as we know it, and it’s crazy to allow it to be privately owned with so little competition.

In the old days, there would be public standards and interoperability and networks of organizations working together. Now the Internet is a series of proprietary walled gardens.

I think it’s more difficult to identify me from an anonymous account where I don’t even talk about myself that much than from an account under their legal name with a bunch of pictures of themselves.

The thing is that Amazon needs to get broken up way more than Ma Bell did. Most people have never heard of AWS before, but it’s crazy to have one company own so much of the internet, even before you get into their stranglehold on internet commerce (which also should be broken up).

It’s so conceited to think the Jews are making you gay. They are a busy people and do not care about your love life. The Illuminati do put ‘the subliminal messages turning you into a femboy’ into all of your entertainment, but that was really more of a joke that got out of hand.

From the day we arrive on this planet, and, blinking, step into the sun…

The problem is that they realized that they could do both.

Biglari has been trying to take over Cracker Barrel for years. Not really hard to guess who was behind this.

Starting with “Hate to break it to you” is starting an argument with someone on your own side for no reason.

We used to have laws against media consolidation. Yes, the wealthy have always owned media, however, this is still new

You’re making a point slightly different than mine. It’s weird and unnecessary to act like I didn’t know that.

Why be a dick? You don’t need to break anything to me. If you don’t understand that the present media consolidation is indeed novel, perhaps you should study history. But nothing I said suggested things used to be good.

This is part of a complete rightwing takeover of media. They used fear of China to make sure that they control every platform.

Yes, and don’t forget the local politicians handing out tax incentives and sweetheart deals to data centers so we can all chip in together to help the tech bros delete our jobs.

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It’s pretty accurate to say the wealthy like fascism if you look at how the wealthy keep trying to implement fascism. The Business Plot was an attempted fascist takeover of the United States, and the Trump regime was a successful fascist takeover of the United States. Both were bankrolled by the wealthy.

I’m not interested in defining the word fascist. The word has a definition and if some people use it incorrectly, that is not my concern.

I think when you talk about the “economy” you’re not taking into account income inequality. Economic crashes are great for the capitalist class. They get to buy everything at fire sale prices, and pay their workers pennies. Even if they have slightly less “wealth” than they might, they have enormously more power (which locks in more wealth during the “recovery”).

We have never ever ever dealt with white supremacy.

We have made some cursory nods towards helping minorities survive in a white supremacist state, but there has not even been a concerted effort to try to end white supremacy.