We went from privacy consciousness and being scared of government bugs planted everywhere to giving ALL our information away for practically free AND running as many bugs and cameras in and around our houses, voluntarily.

It is absolutely more than enough to slap an extensive form or a prompt in front of somebody and they will happily enter all their information. Even games are now allegedly-AI-scanning your face to create your in-game avatar and people actually do this. Then they film and publish their lives and opinions, voice face and all, online and anyone who wants can use all that information.

It is seriously bewildering all the data people are ready to diligently hand over nowadays.
The backlash against discord is almost a surprise, it seems their reputation was even worse than the other data hogs.

How rich hearing this out of the mouth of DeutschBank, of all the filthy corrupt and greedy banksters. DeutschBank has been shook by unbelievable levels of corruption, political shenanigans, insider trading and shadiest deals in the last decade, they are a much greater risk themselves than anything else.

You DO know that the CCP literally has secret police all over the world and they actually do abduct people and bring them back to China or make them disappear or both?
In the literal sense of those words, not in the orange-man-TDS-screeching sense.

It has been pumped and dumped for years now.. the whales are gladly riding the waves and the news media got something to report and discuss. All the fat cats win!

Dont worry, nobody uses bing anyway!

I am generally for some of the EU crackdowns that are pro-consumer, but in a world full of thousands of messengers and hundreds of other means of sharing any and all data between all devices, AirDrop really isnt a hill to choose for a battle or to die on - neither does it matter whether other phones can send and receive from it.

This feels like very politically motivated grandstanding from the geriatric, overly-satiated Brussels autocrats and technocrats.

They should spend their time on pushing USBC as a universal charging standard for as many devices (not just phones!) as possible, and making sure Europe does not drift even further away from modern technology and innovation than they already are.
Manhandling US giants might look good in news headlines, but it will not create innovation nor prosperity in Europe, a continent beginning to be a very bad downturn and dwindling influence and importance in geopolitics and technological innovation.

Well, but somehow nowadays that is super totally filthy hyper-capitalist, colonialist and misogynist and racist and fascist and literally nothing the US has ever done is good in any way..
So shouldnt these people be celebrating that the evil propaganda by CIA is gone? The orange man could have had some facts altered!!!

You really, REALLY have been going out of your way bending over backwards to look absolutely certifiably idiotic, especially your loudest and aggressive, violent ones are particularly detrimental to your whole image and they remind all normal people of the worst flaws of humanity and the worst episodes in history.

That is why the oh-so-allegedly-purely-evil other side is having an absolute field day pummeling you, even on platforms you formerly ruled with an absolute and iron fist of propaganda and censorship eehhh moderation.

That is why nuggies are just yet another ideological, philosophical battlefield in the tribal insanity, and because the oh-so-evil-side made it a topic in their program, of course you now have to be against anything they say.. because nuance and agreeing on specific points while disagreeing on other points is not allowed anymore, according to the oh so morally good and tolerant inclusive people.

Panasonic is making those cameras, and it is much more of a lifestyle brand now than anything, if one can even believe it that you can position five-figure digital cameras as lifestyle.

Let us also remember the oh so wonderful Gates of the 90s, the FUD nightmares and desperately trying to eliminate any competition, especially against linux.
It is beyond bizarre seeing how m$ tries to act all cool nowadays, after all they have done and stood for being the worst of the worst.
How quickly people forget. Gates was the biggest thief himself.

The AI bubble fueled by greed and hope for more greed needs additional hype fuel, so the news media is writing big headlines how AI stinks so that more hype cash is thrown into the hype engine.
So far, so capitalist hype train as usual.

But now the suits n ties are using these fake headlines to justify pretty much anything because OMG AI is coming.
We really are living on the wrong branch of reality.

This has already started, the parasites have already infested every possible host and held their first struggle-sessions and demanded kow-tows.

> no Republicans
  Ah yes, the tolerant, peaceful, kind and inclusive people are at it again!
Democracy is only fine as long as these people get their every single whim⦠such tolerance, much inclusion!

I do not understand how or why this discussion is coming up now, this is not the 90s anymore and we have seen what the riaa and mpaa cronies have done for 30+ years, so it is a dead discussion.

But nowadays, I am honestly baffled what anyone would copy or share anymore, the overwhelming majority of shows and movies have gotten so terrible I would not even waste the download on them. And the actually good shows and movies, I had eventually bought multiple copies and different formats of over the years anyway, and gladly so.
Companies just have to offer the right kind of package and most fans will gladly shell out the cash - but the entertainment market as a whole is quite different nowadays, too. So I doubt dropping hundreds of millions on a horrible movie is a wise decision anyway. There are simply way more entertaining alternatives now, more than ever before.

We are slowly but surely seeing another end to another era of absolutely crippling studio-control, the shift of the pendulum is inevitable, those studios are all way too big to succeed anymore.

How is this new or surprising? Consumers organizing into consumer protection groups is almost as old as time. And those groups have always had the goal of getting the filthy fat cats to listen.
Now we are protecting the oh so poor good guy billionaires suddenly?

And since the studios tried their hardest to make even the most minuscule and ridiculous decisions into massive political marketing campaigns, now they will have to face the tribal political backlash as well.

I see nothing wrong in this - it is supposed to primarily be entertainment and a good entertainment product, so vote with your wallet and let them face all the backlash for their terrible products.

Sandfall with Exp33 or even embark with ARCRaiders are showing what good, successful and awesome modern gaming built by actually talented teams looks like while so called triple A is in freefall.
A much deserved win for the consumers, and the actually talented teams.