It has been blatantly obvious for the past 10 plus years yet most still see it as if it is new.
Substituting « the US » for « the West » on HN clarifies a lot of things.
I would rather we stop talking about the West, it does not mean much anymore.
Most likely through their phones. They can just track you if they wanted to. Everybody knows it. This sentiment is part of why the USA will lose the propaganda war.
There is no amount of propaganda the USA can make to remedy this reality.
Is your argument that the Chinese will win a propaganda war concerning the surveillance state?
There is no secret sauce or moat , they ve been saying that for years, and it's still true. Being number 2 in the race is a losing position, so china probably thought they might as well give it away
How many rent seekers and leeching lawyers and advertisers our economy and consumers can suffer?
What's wrong with us?
The future is open, they're just buying time. Piracy can never end because copyright is fictitious.
See, I could set up a system where I charge you for air by tracking your every breath, but that would be stupid since air is just available. There is a way tho.
Rather, capitalism will most likely look towards changing technology standards and softwares environments to serve their purpose.
Forget about downloading applications and looking at source code, the only way to use mass production computers will be through their neutered means: - Only approved softwares from approved "markets"/"app stores" - Settings? "Nah that's for experts" - Ad blocking? "That's a serious crime" - Different operating system? "You can't change that"
It's not enshittification its capitalism.
Edit: This just jumped from #7 in queue to #2380 in queue. I should have used another service.
If/when it completes, it should be here:
I requested that they make a copy of it. It is currently #11 in queue.
Hopefully, they will be able to copy the whole article.
No, I am not able to alter what it archives.
As on copyright vs no copyright, I agree with the view of Bunny Huang. Chinese laxity with copyright doesn't destroy the advantage of the first mover - it just puts a limit to it. Basically if you want to be on top, you need to keep innovating non-stop, you can't rest on your laurels.
Systems relying on copyright allow companies to alienate engineers' work, that's how Oracle ended up with more lawyers than engineers (even if that's just a meme). Systems where knowledge is distributed freely (including the open source community) gives power to engineers.
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