“Why is the
world[western governments] all of a sudden trying to control us with mass surveillance?”It’s not all of a sudden. They’ve been trying to do this for years.
And people have been fighting it, for years.
People have also been warning you, for years.You were warned that Net Neutrality was super important.
You were warned that COPPA and KOSA weren’t what lawmakers said they were.
People tried to tell you that banning apps would set dangerous precedent for the internet, and that they’d be coming for your VPNS.
People tried to tell you that big tech companies trying to block ad-blockers and selling your data were bad things.
People even tried to tell you that it was weird for supermarkets to be collecting mass amounts of data from your purchases to advertise to you, and that it was super weird for places like Walmart to need facial recognition cameras on top of that.
You just didn’t listen.And you didn’t push back.
And now we’re here.
That said, boycott any site that wants you to upload your ID- for the love of the gods don’t give them that shit it WILL get hacked/sold-
and make some noise about this bullshit. We need to make it clear that we won’t just lay down and take this.
If YouTube’s new AI flags you as “underage” and asks for an ID or your face, DO NOT GIVE IT TO THEM.
Uninstall the app. Close the browser. Leave a 1 star review on the App Store and/or Google Play Store. Call them if you can, and don’t email as there aren’t any humans that see those.
Let them know that this new policy unfairly targets gamers, those with autism, those who watch cartoons, etc. It was never about protecting the kids.
READ THIS IF YOU PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUTUBE LONG-TERM
get an invidious account. it is an alternative front-end to youtube, allowing you to make an account, subscribe to channels, make playlists, and all the other things you use youtube for; all without giving the company a single cent. swearing off youtube long-term is a tall ask, so you can use this to still follow the creators you want to keep up with while continuing the youtube boycott. it has a built-in adblock and anti-tracker, meaning that you can really keep fucking them over.
it doesnt interact with the API at all, it scrapes the metadata to make sure they get as little as possible.
Greenroom: Social Media
Everybody seems to have “that guy” in their friends list.
If you don’t know that guy, maybe you are that guy. Don’t be that guy.
That guy is still around btw…
I think “The AI says something in an eloquent tone that suggests an educated mind, with the confidence that suggests reliability and makes me doubt myself when I disagree, yet the thing it says is entirely made up, and when I say so the AI will not be reasoned with” is just a brick wall that everyone has to walk into at least once before they realize you can’t rely on what bots tell you. I think we can tell people as often as we want, they have to experience it themself, personally, each and every one of them, at least once. It’s easy to feel superior when you’ve had that experience in 2011 (fun too!), but some had it in 2023 and some will probably have it in 2025.
“BacksTagez träffar Tegnér” (sic) går väl att se som en pendang till “Sven-Ingvars i Frödingland” som hade släppsts något år tidigare. Plattan är dels ett exempel på Tages förmåga att surfa på rådande trender, och dels hans ganska missriktade strävan mot att bli accepterad i de finare salongerna.
