You're missing a third issue: The tank style printers all have an insanely wasteful mandatory "cleaning" function that dumps tons of ink into a non-replaceable pad sitting in the bottom of the printer. It's not a special container or anything, it's literally just the bottom of the inside of the printer. Once they flood that pad the printer is bricked.
Not even that. Kotaku is a mouthpiece for those who want a world where your success is dictated by whether you paid off the right people in the right way, and where basic rights like owning things you buy and not getting malware or defective-by-design trash are considered "nazism".
There's a reason they always pull out their worst smear campaigns for people who are trying to bring up serious issues like companies stealing or degrading already purchased products, false advertising, and outright fraud like lootbox scams and "native advertising".
Define "review bombing" in a way that doesn't literally boil down to "people I disagree with" or "peasants who don't think as they're told". Why is it not "review bombing" when a handful of incestuous websites collude to stage a mafia shakedown against a developer, but it is "review bombing" when actual customers speak up about ponzi schemes and other scams?
Come to think of it pretty much the only time I ever see that and other derogatory terms against customers used is precisely when people come together to call out rights violating DRM, malware, false advertising, ripoffs, and defective products.
Even heroic successful black antiracism activists like Daryl Davis have been called nazis and threatened by woke mobs. All you're doing is saying that you're completely fine with totalitarianism as long as people justify it by first accusing their targets of witchcraft and heresy.
Funny since the people who call everyone "nazis" these days, especially actual minorities like black people and jews, are the people who also shout "gas the jews" and violently attack Jews. They're also the people who've spent over a decade using a combination of institutional capture and outright mob violence to silence and terrorize anyone who tries to speak out against them and justified it by calling their victims "nazis".
Apparently the only thing needed for you to support everything you pretend to oppose is for someone to stick out a finger and shout "witch" a moment before they start doing all the things you pretend you oppose.
If you were a Palestinian living in the West Bank, and a Zionist settler wanted to buy guns and a bulldozer from you, would you sell it to them?
Very telling choice of metaphor, since Judea was ethnically cleansed of its indigenous Jewish population by literal Waffen SS Nazis and then colonized for only about 20 years. What's even more interesting is that for the duration of that 20 year Nazi occupation and colonization the entire settler-colonial empire behind it staged a public boycott of what they called "Palestinians"... the indigenous Jews who had survived their attempted genocide.
It's very telling that you spend so much time talking about how Nazis can't be tolerated, granted rights, or allowed to exist as part of society at all... and then you turn around and support literal Waffen SS Nazis from World War 2 who committed a genocide against Jews in their indigenous lands, while simultaneously referring to those indigenous peoples as "settlers".
All of this just reinforces the classic point that leftists don't actually have a problem with things like Nazis, colonialism, and genocide... as long as they're the ones doing it to people they don't like.
we need to use strong social mechanisms to shut down fascism and Nazis or they can and will use those systems against us
Creating those censorship and totalitarian mechanisms is exactly how they will wind up able to do that. You are doing the very thing you claim to be opposing. It's very meta of you, but it's still toxic and dangerous. By your own logic you should be banned from every website and have your credit cards and bank accounts revoked.
Long-term teaching critical thinking and claims evaluation skills in grade school will have that effect but we're a long way off from that being uncontroversial and allowed.
The entire reason Jewish students are being forced to lock themselves in attics by violent mobs is because for decades schools have been doing things your way and using a combination of institutional capture and outright violent terrorism to censor everything counter to their cult's belief system, all using the justification that their targets are "nazis" who are "too dangerous" to be allowed basic rights.
We are in the position we are in precisely because society has been doing things your way. You're literally doing the very thing you claim to be opposing, just with one extra step of inventing an excuse to justify it.
The grand irony is the people screaming "we must abolish all civil rights because of a nazi crisis" are the very people who are violently attacking Jews around the world right now, and they're getting away with it because they've spent the past few decades steadily increasing their ability to censor all information counter to their position in the name of popper's paradox.
"The brownshirts weren't part of the government therefore people's freedoms weren't infringed on by their actions" is not the winning argument you think it is. Especially in an era where it's already been proven that a handful of ultra-powerful corporations have a near total monopoly on infrastructure and information and have worked hand-in-glove with their preferred political party to abuse that.
Every single thing you take for granted today as a fundamental moral good was at some point considered as intolerable as you now consider "Nazism", and at the time of the Nazis they convinced the public that what they were doing was not only fundamentally morally good but also morally necessary.
Rights are like encryption, you either have it or you don't. There's no middle ground. There's no "good guy bit" that prevents bad actors from using encryption back doors. The same applies to rights.
If you say that stripping people of their rights is fine as long as you call them bad names first then you've already lost, because even black antiracism activists have been called nazis and threatened by woke mobs. The problem with witch hunts is that eventually we're all witches.
Even heroically successful black antiracism activists like Daryl Davis have been called nazis and threatened by woke mobs.
You aren't describing Popper's Paradox, you're an example of it. All you're doing is adding on one extra step of first calling the people you want to censor names in order to justify your totalitarianism.
In the lead up to the Nazis taking over Germany they did exactly what you are doing. Hitler didn't wake up and say "Mwahaha I am evil and now a dictator", he won a free and fair election and was democratically given his power by an elected legislature because he convinced everyone that what he was doing wasn't just right but morally necessary. He claimed everything he was doing was to protect innocent people from systematic and institutionalized oppression by a privileged elite who meant them harm and was responsible for everything bad in the world.
He portrayed his enemies as people who could not be tolerated, who were too dangerous to be allowed rights and freedoms, and eventually too deplorable to be allowed to live.
And while using the State against them is generally too risky there's absolutely no reason to hold back from private action
Brownshirts. They're called brownshirts. You're literally saying you want to be Hitler and do everything he did while pretending you're trying to save us all from Nazis.
those people do radicalise others into committing murder.
You mean like the 50+ people murdered and entire neighborhoods razed to the ground during riots started by leftist disinformation? Like how covid hysteria led to teenage girls being hospitalized just for not masking hard enough? Or how Jewish professors have been forced to flee their campus by armed mobs? Female professors hospitalized with neck injuries after being attacked for attending a talk campus leftists disagreed with? Jewish students forced to lock themselves in an attack and barricade the doors against violent mobs incited to attack them by decades of indoctrination claiming all Jews share responsibility for everything bad in the world, even police brutality?
It's one thing to not take action to prevent them speaking elsewhere, and another to provide them with a platform and a revenue stream.
And your argument falls apart in the age of monopolized infrastructure. People have tried to create new websites, they were denied hosting. They tried to start new providers, they were denied access to server and backbone infrastructure. They tried to build new infrastructure, they were denied payment processing. They tried to handle their own payments, they were denied bank accounts.
Where does your totalitarian ostracism end? Even heroically successful black antiracism activists like Daryl Davis have been called nazis and threatened by woke mobs. Should he have to invent an entire parallel currency, banking system, telecommunications infrastructure, server farm, and webhost from scratch just so he's able to exercise a fundamental right?
You don't have a problem with any of this, you just want to be the one doing the murdering.
And that exact kind of disinformation is exactly how so many people are successfully able to repeat what he actually did, which was bait a structurally unsound government into abusing its powers and bypassing the legislature to rule through executive orders. Hitler was elected on a campaign of democratic socialist reform, promising to end authoritarian abuses and protect the working class from systematic and institutionalized oppression by a privileged elite.
to be as rude and obstructive as possible to them and to convince others to do likewise.
That's called the "heckler's veto" and is considered a textbook example of the concept that your rights end where someone else's begin. A historical example of it taken to its inevitable conclusion was Hitler's brownshirts smashing in Jewish owned businesses and terrorizing anyone who disagreed with them to the point people were afraid to speak up.
You're literally admitting in plain english that you don't have a problem with Hitler's tactics and behavior, you just want to be the one in charge.
Then make it so fraudulent takedowns lead to the mandatory revocation of the copyright after enough of them are made.
How about this then: Enough fraudulent takedowns and the copyright is revoked and becomes public domain.
"You can't be responsible with it so you're losing it".
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