I wonder if the chatgpt shirtless guy is from the same kind of issue

Yes, they spy on you to see if you pirate movies, so most users already use a VPN to download their pirated medias. Thanks to Hadopi, the french already know how to bypass censorship and surveillance

Great for you but that's not how it works in France. They have been revolting on and off for decades/centuries, and the government know how to stifle it.

The police gas and break up most peaceful protests until there is no avenue left but to clash with the police. They regularly attack, maim, and kill people (either protesters or even bystanders, like the woman who was watching from her window and was targeted by a police explosive (confirmed not an accident but intentional police violence))

Agents provocateur instigate violence and looting, but the police never interrupt them like they do the peaceful kids. The images of riots play directly into the media and government hand who play the law and order angle. As evidenced by these news which only see it as rioting and not the government preventing any kind of protest.

They are using the unrest to try and ban the most popular leftist party in France. They are destroying what's left of democracy in the country.

Why are you talking about race? I said bad neighborhoods. The vast majority of people there are white French.

Because bad neighborhoods are most generally seen as the HLM banlieue where most are not "white". It's a pretty obvious dog whistle from the RN.

Those people do come from the HLM banlieues, doesn't say anything about their race.

There are multiple videos from France showing undercover police instigating and breaking things.

Then, the government is pushing cities to denounce the most popular Left party as the instigator of the riots.

They are preparing to ban them next elections for this. It's pretty clear it's all a political maneuver to ensure it's once again Macron's party versus Marine's far right party, hoping it ensures their win against her

But even if Le Pen's far right party wins, Macron will still be pretty happy with that, far happier than if a left party won.

How do you figure that? Why would their members have called to vote for the left parties in the areas where they were losing the last legislative elections if they were preferring Le Pen?

I'm not saying Macron is happy with the "extreme left", but it seems to me he's much more against the "extreme right". And not just him: pretty much every politician and their dog is trying to distance themselves from the Le Pen's party.

Expensive TV also spy on you, so spending more does not help

This is the point everyone misses. It's not just that they are subsidizing the price of the TV. Whenever there is an opportunity to extract more profit, eventually they will do it. The rich are not immune from being targeted by this but they sure like to think that they are when they support this behavior in the companies they control.

This is the conspiracy theory thinking GP was referring to. There’s no evidence for any of it, it’s all vibes.

I favorite reels that are pro-Palestinian, and now my feed is packed with anti-Zionist reels. I literally don’t think I’ve ever seen a pro-Israel reel.

I have multiple examples of "neutral" content being invaded by Israeli propaganda, and Facebook even admits they will only show "select comments" and won't allow you to see any other. Even sub comments won't show all responses but only pro Israeli. It's pretty clear that Meta favors these, and it's not just because of external actors trying to influence.

There is evidence here of influence on the Brazilian elections. They were working with Cambridge Analytics to influence British elections.

There has been multiple whistleblowers saying they are offering political favors. There as studies showing they do indeed prefer certain parties.

How long can we keep our heads in the sand? When will it be enough

Will come the day Microsoft stops bribing politicians to stay on MS Office and Windows.

It will come the day open source developers prioritize the same things enterprises and governments do.

Mostly just usability.

Also somebody to call (or sue) when it doesn't work right.

Many open-source programs have great usability. It’s just that a lot of people define “usability” as “works as closely to Microsoft equivalent as possible”, which is not really fair.

Basically all Microsoft software is bad. It’s obtuse, slow, unintuitive garbage. But people get very used to it, and are fantastic at navigating around and getting their job done. I should hope so, they’ve had decades.

Governments are free to pay consultants to fix it. It's Open Source after all.

If even a tenth of all government licence fees went to improve open source alternatives, they would surpass Microsoft within a year. And every human on earth would benefit.

Instead we're being extorted by Microsoft for buggy software

Good luck with MS support when things go wrong. Your ticket will bounce between 7 different engineering services which will try their basic debug script before tossing you to another department, all after calling you at 4am.

Also, MS doesn't care anymore since they have the monopoly. Things go wrong? Tough shit you won't migrate somewhere else anyway, and will continue to spend millions for licences.

Yeah you're absolutely right, pretty sure the bribes have nothing to do with it and it's because open source is worse. /s

You can always make something better in your spare time.

Unfortunately, most streamers don't have the best IT security knowledge, and with AI tools now allowing them more and more than what was previously possible, it also opens the door for more vibe coded apps that could have serious security holes.

Should the streamers' apps be more secure? Absolutely, but the underlying tool should also strive to be secure enough for all use cases.

Anyway, thanks for the two links, they were interesting reads.

Didn't Ofcom send multiple threat letters to 4chan, requesting they comply with UK laws? That counts as trying to enforce it

Yes. Ofcom sent multiple extortion letters to 4chan and Kiwi Farms, demanding they pay up and/or submit to British rule. Saying it was for “PR purposes” is equivalent to saying that reporting blackmail is for PR. GP also fails to understand that specifically US courts have no jurisdiction to stop international extortion, which is a loophole through the FSIA. For now, this creates a gridlock: the UK has no ability to seize assets from non-UK entities, but are free to fine and declare non-UK entities as in violation, which aids internal and even international pressure to censoring speech critical of the UK government. In response, US legislation is being proposed (GRANITE Act) that aims to close this loophole.