The computer literate know. The rest don't understand what's happening or can't be convinced to care. The grandmas and soccer moms support it because "think of the children" and won't listen to other arguments.

This is all by design. As one person put it, "this isn't about protecting children; it's about identifying dissidents."

The horrifying implications for privacy are the POINT.

The "think of the children" excuse is almost always used in bad faith by the originators of these bills and their corporate and deep-state sponsors. Linux was an escape hatch from constant surveillance, and now they're trying to close that hatch for good.

The lives of average people are about to get a lot worse (in part because of AI), and they know this, so they feel they need better tracking of any dissidents or movements that could be a threat to their power. It also helps them when they tighten the screws on other fundamental liberties if disgruntled citizens start bringing attention to it. The persecution of journalists, activists, and dissidents is the POINT. This is just the beginning. Soon it will require face scans for California, then other states, then finally nationwide.

This is all deliberate. Stop acting like these people are innocent. Sure, many senators will vote for it because the "think of the children" optics look bad for them to uninformed soccer moms and grandmas.

They will control everything, and they will crush any dissent before it starts with AI spying, emotion recognition, and behavioral prediction algorithms. Expect AI drones in the sky.

Welcome to Half-Life 2. The combine congratulates you on your new citizenship.

Wake me up in two weeks when they've done an about-face because the investors like money and demanded it.

I heard about this story before but with far less onerous numbers being reported for those affected.

Monetary compensation is insufficient to rectify this atrocity. Unless the UK can erase prison time and resurrect the dead, the punishment must be similarly brutal.

Fire all remaining Post Office employees who carried out these prosecutions and accusations without verifying data. Terminated with no severance. Cut the post office budget by 30% for 5 years, non-negotiable.

Assign neutral overseers to all post office fraud cases indefinitely. Make sure the burden of proof is on the post office.

Financial compensation is wholly insufficient for reparations. The punishments, not merely reparations, but the punishments, must be similarly severe. Investigate all employees who gave orders for prosecution based on this information for criminal negligence. If convicted, they should spend 20 years in prison.

Why am I so harsh? Because you can't raise the dead, therefore it can never truly be made right. The punishment must be draconian and excessive as a result.

If somehow this isn't a distraction and he actually intends to release files with meaningful data rather than heavily redacted ambiguous fluff, he is seriously risking being JFK'd.

They will never, EVER implement universal basic income in the USA. They'll parrot the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and "these people are lazy and don't want to work" narratives. When masses of people become homeless, the police abuse of the homeless and criminalization of vagrancy will worsen. Anti-homeless architecture will get turned up to 11. Besides, the USA literally can't afford UBI unlike some other European nations, partly because of our massive debt, and partly because so much of our taxes are spent on criminally overpriced military equipment manufactured by the true masters of this nation.

Oh and if you make too much noise or have ideas that are too "subversive" the AI-powered panoptycon surveillance network will throw you in prison, and also for frowning at your front-facing camera during Dear Leader's speech.

It only gets worse from here. I predict a future that is somewhere in-between bleak and hellscape. The best scenario? A quick merciful death for humanity.

Aaaaahahhahahahaahahahahahhhahahahaah!!!!!!!!!! As if that will ever happen!!!! That will never happen. You will enjoy your malware infested Android tubs of shit, or we will put you on a list for hating nominal surveillance!! Laugh now. You know I'm right.

There are extremophiles on Earth that endure much harsher environments than a frozen moon full of water. I suspect if there's life, some biological processes will be powered by different minerals/substances, but to think it can't support life is hubris.

Do I doubt the article's truthfulness? No. Do I believe that no matter what articles come out, the job apocalypse will continue? Absolutely. There is no hope and no future. Get it through your thick skulls. No hope because of who we are as a species. Surrender to futility.

Doesn't it depress you, knowing that continual reboots and milking decades-old IPs for a little bit more profit is another symptom of the toxic world you're trying to escape by watching this? Doesn't the sickening taste of that greed, and that total bankruptcy of imagination, with its risk-averse end-stage crapitalism, ruin whatever 3 lines of dialog are gonna be different from the last six reboots?

That type of capitalism ends one of two ways. Massive systemic collapse, or oligarchy. Once they own everything, they won't need a viable consumer base to sell to, because they'll own everything.

Just as the dawn of Google Chrome ushered in the decay of the internet to the degenerative state it now sits in, OpenAI's browser will turn it into a straight up X-Files nightmare. Just a prediction of my own.

Right, as if just because the VPN claims it's cryptographically verified means that there's no side channels, infections, tracking cookies, malicious JS, or any other number of obvious causes of doxxing. You have no privacy. Let me be very clear. There is no place on Earth that is totally private, and no information on Earth that is totally secure. By all means, go ahead, protect yourself as best you can. Just remember, that at the end of the day, you will fail.

They also deliberately cut you off when placing you "on hold" if your problem is too much trouble to deal with or something they haven't seen lately. That's done by agents, not by the company.

Yeah right. Europe isn't in nearly as severe a state of regulatory capture as the US is. This was possible in Europe because they still have a thin veneer of democracy about them. The United States has devolved dramatically and any delusions you might have about the regulators saving you from hostile or abusive corporate behavior should be put to bed right now with the same intravenous solution they use on a dog with terminal cancer.