Whatever, Adobe. You've irritated so many.

Welcome to the First Church of Appliantology https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ask: Since there's no reasonable way to maintain freedom of speech and simultaneously prevent attempts at negative influence, what is it that renders large numbers of people susceptible to negative influence and how might we inoculate against this phenomenon?

Isn't this essentially the same tactic used to subvert people's ideals? It's how ideologies are sold and the hesitant, bedded by the unscrupulous; one small, seemingly harmless step at a time.

It's not new- it's the one all along...

It's likely that the sexually satisfied consumer is less easy to manipulate with sexual marketing - so in that model the goal would be to keep the consumer hungry and never fed.

Things like that list very roughly the approximate premise of the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - the 1995 film adaptation is oddly/annoyingly difficult to find, as is the 2013 adaptation of Huxley's Brave New World - I sometimes wonder if it isn't intentional that these films aren't available because they might shed a different light on current times....

Money should also have weight; ethereal money streamlines & amplifies corruption outcomes. Imagine how difficult it would be to be a billionaire and stay that way if you had to be nice enough that people would help you transport and protect it.

Give them skills as they seek them, give them free time, give them space to be who they are - invention will occur naturally.

"a group of space friends in Silicon Valley" Let 'em fucking go. They're less useful than phone sanitizers.