First the FBI starts trying to knock the doors down at archive.today trying to find the owner (and likely to access backend data). After that, archive.today makes VPN connections more difficult (were they being targeted with criminally suspicious uploads?). Now archive.today is being blamed for DDoS attacks against others and harming their own integrity (wth) by randomly screwing around with uploads. So suspicious... Are there files at archive.today that were uploaded that should not have been? Epstein related? Another op against the United States by a parasitic israel? (I mention the two main triggers that exist today). Is this all connected? Forced IDs, Google locking down sideloading, Microsoft creeping into user's OneDrive accounts and blaming software bugs, Discord, more sites making VPN access more difficult, tons more... Is Big Tech now such an extension of the new fascist state that we can't tell where the state ends and Big Tech begins?

Hollywood is spending a ton of money (partially funded & directed by gov agencies) on an army of bots and shills to target anyone using AI that may encroach on their territory. Hollywood isn't just about entertainment, it's about manipulating the population to behave a certain way. Their well-documented close ties with the government speaks to this. Their well-documented close ties to a specific foreign nation speaks to this. They spent a ton of money buying out the threat that TikTok posed to continue gaslighting, they sure aren't going to let AI content creators into the conversation. That's laughable. So like many others, I ask... where can I stream this?

He's playing to his base: The words "fact" and "book", so close together, are very scary to these people.

Always with the vague, nonsensical language. What does "focused on AI safety, transparency and governance" even mean? With Proton (Lumo), DDG and Brave they are very clear. Privacy this, no saving of chats, etc... in plain language we can understand. We can question that. We can't even begin to decipher the gibberish this company virtue signals daily. The only thing they stand for is what people imagine and project they stand for.

Literally Strawman argument 101. What other scenarios do you fantasize Stallman to be in or are those too private to share?

AI has already been weaponized worldwide, led by US/israeli efforts. Flimsy internal laws will have minimal effects. I foresee a point where countries will physically cut off international internet access because of this weaponization. We have already seen what uncheck power is doing around the world. AI just makes it so much easier for some (of the same) countries to terrorize others.

"... but who directs it and for what purposes?" As he's already aware, those decision have long ago been made. We'll keep asking these questions for the next few years until it truly is too late. That's the game plan. It keeps everyone from mobilizing until the only thing that remains is the illusion of choice.

In the meantime, he's handed the decryption keys to all cloud data on every iDevice user in China. (source: common knowledge)

> "At the end of the day we'll be judged more on 'did we stand up for what we believed in,' not necessarily, 'do they agree with it.'"

Consider yourself judged.

With conspiracy hat on: maybe they were going after bigger fishes while working with the government or local law enforcement. So instead of targeting a possible suspect directly, they employed a kind of 6 degrees of separation.

The primary suspect (or suspicious person or one with a low "social credit": remember, even Apple reads emails now to determine a Trust Score[0]) would normally be more guarded.

> why take peoples' email passwords?

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/...

Had no idea that MX Linux had become so well-known (or increasingly so). Thanks for pointing this out! I'm an ex-Mint user (still love what they've done with the distro and Cinnamon) not because there was anything wrong with it but because of performance issues on my admittedly lower-end (aged) laptop. Went through tons of Live CDs. anti-X drew me in (love lightweight OSes) and it was followed by MX Linux.

Been on it for about 6 months. I was just looking for a distro that would breathe new life into my laptop. I happened to get one that is a rolling release (so rare in the Linux world), running on top of debian (access to a rich assortment of programs). Did not really consider other aspects like systemd - was just looking for a performance boost.

Performance has been amazing (at the end of the day... this is the key). Firefox Quantum runs like a champ on a 10+ year old laptop where the chromes fail miserably. Added the FF extension named "h264ify" (plus the usual anti-trackers) and now Youtube Videos don't cause the laptop into meltdown.

At some point I'm going to have to replace my old non-kiosk laptop (with such a great keyboard, tons of ports, massive hard drive, 16:10 aspect ratio, replaceable components) but not today - all because of MX Linux. I think lots of Linux users are in a similar position as me (running older - tried and true - laptops).

The devil represents the compromises we're often forced to make. Having a BigTech's binary closed source driver (often working in the background) playing any role in an Open Source system is ludicrous when you think about it. Having a horned devil representing this compromise is brilliant! It's also an honest approach to the current state of things.

He was smart enough not to set up an account in Nigeria. That would have been a giveaway.

Seriously though, Google and Facebook can tell you what you had for breakfast three years ago, on any Wednesday: but they are clueless as to whom they do business with. Probably because it would involve "tracking" their own transactions in the same way...

We aren't just the product, we're the targets.

It's the same reason Windows Notepad is my fav "chat" application... when I log into someone else's Windows machine with Teamviewer. It isn't about students being clever (as some posts suggests), it's about finding the easiest solution to a problem. We work with what we have.

> THAT is the biggest reason why I see Google Docs as a chat application.