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subw00f commented on US threatens extra tariffs, export bans, for nations that regulate Big Tech theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/belter

terminalshort · 6 days ago

And none of that is profitable. It's quite the opposite. They do it because the government forces them to do it. Big tech companies don't want to do this, and didn't do this before the spooks came knocking. This is why government regulation will only make matters worse. These things are done because of, not in spite of, the government.

subw00f · 6 days ago

The government is them! Can you not see it? They are intertwined so hard, it's difficult to distinguish who wants what, because they MERGED. The state is ruled by the economic elite, and that's done via the government.

subw00f commented on US threatens extra tariffs, export bans, for nations that regulate Big Tech theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/belter

bitshiftfaced · 6 days ago

> Brazil’s supreme court has ruled that social media platforms can be held legally responsible for users’ posts, in a decision that tightens regulation on technology giants in the country.

> Companies such as Facebook, TikTok and X will have to act immediately to remove material such as hate speech, incitement to violence or “anti-democratic acts”, even without a prior judicial takedown order

https://www.ft.com/content/4a5235c5-acd0-4e81-9d44-2362a25c8...

Twitter was blocked immediately, without a public hearing or appeal process.

> In early May 2023, when the bill was about to be approved, Google and Telegram used their own platforms to express their opposition to the bill to their Brazilian users, and soon after were forced to back down by government institutions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Congressional_Bill...

Brazil has a low "Freedom on the Net" rating, "partly free": https://freedomhouse.org/country/brazil/freedom-net/2024# .

subw00f · 6 days ago

>The justice, Alexandre de Moraes, temporarily banned Elon Musk’s social media platform X last year after the billionaire refused to obey court orders to suspend certain accounts.

>On May 11, the president of the Chamber of Deputies requested that the directors of Google and Telegram in the country be investigated for their actions against the bill, describing these actions as forceful and abusive of the companies' hegemonic positions in the market, motivated by economic interests, and cited possible crimes against democratic institutions.

I'm not even a supporter of the current Brazilian administration, or even the political system for that matter, but these companies MUST obey court orders and MUST refrain from using their positions to attack governmental institutions or to prevent legislation that goes against their economic-political gains. They may be above US law, but they will have to lobby harder if they want to go over some of them here.

subw00f commented on US threatens extra tariffs, export bans, for nations that regulate Big Tech theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/belter

terminalshort · 6 days ago

Big tech serves exactly one purpose. Making money by giving people what they want. In the case of Uber that's great because I will never even think about doing business with the cab cartel again. I don't owe them a damn thing. Nor do I owe my own local culture any loyalty over what I can watch on Netflix. You could argue that the algorithmic feed on social media is a negative, but the idea that there is some underlying agenda is ridiculous. At worst it's like a drug dealer saying "I have what you want... heroin!"

subw00f · 6 days ago

It's remarkable to me that even after all the scandals and whistleblowing going on in the last decades about intelligence agencies, the US government, and big tech collaborating to surveil and control their own citizens or other nations, the recent, full public alignment between the big tech billionaires and the executive branch, not to mention the whole history of US imperialism, which you can boil down to violent expansion of private markets and capital to the detriment of other peoples, there are still smart people like yourself that don't question it in the slightest. In fact, embrace it. Hopefully you're benefiting directly from it, otherwise, you're just a frog getting slowly boiled in a pot of crumbling social environment. Also, did you ever ask yourself where your "preferences" or "wants" come from or how they form?

subw00f commented on US threatens extra tariffs, export bans, for nations that regulate Big Tech theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/belter

terminalshort · 6 days ago

Big tech regulations serve exactly two purposes (real, not stated):

1. Information control for political censorship

2. A source of cash from fines

The issue will not drive anyone into anyone else's orbit.

subw00f · 6 days ago

Big tech serves exactly three purposes (real, not stated):

- The precarization of work by wage compression and anti-worker rights lobbying (Uber)

- The overexploitation of attention for financial (ads) and political gains (tolerance and reach for the ultraliberal, protofascist, neonazi groups and narratives) through American state-sponsored algorithmic manipulation (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter)

- Assimilationism, erasure of local culture, traditions, identities, to achieve cultural hegemony (Netflix)

subw00f commented on US threatens extra tariffs, export bans, for nations that regulate Big Tech theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/belter

lieks · 6 days ago

As a Brazilian, I'm a bit torn on this issue. On the one hand, our social media regulations are terrible, are being approved without due process, and will certainly be used for (political) censorship. On the other hand, it's annoying that the US has to interfere, and concerning that they even can interfere in the first place.

subw00f · 6 days ago

Give me one example of a social media regulation being approved without "due process" or whatever that means. It's annoying when I stub my toe on the couch or when I drop my slice of bread butter-first. It's a criminal attack on the sovereignty of another nation when the US tries to interfere.

subw00f commented on What Is the Future of Work in the Gen AI Era? A Marxist and Ricardian Analysis web.archive.org/web/20250... · Posted by u/subw00f

subw00f · a month ago

Author: Larry Liu (Morgan State University, Baltimore) Abstract: There is an increasing public discourse of automation for white-collar professional jobs due to improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) capacities, raising the question about the contours of the future of work. Marx and Ricardo’s framework of technological labour displacement helps us understand the future of work in the context of AI. Marx’s discussion in Capital and Ricardo’s discussion in Principles of Political Economy reveal the common thesis that technology-induced worker displacement and precariousness of employment relationships are built into the internal logic of the contemporary digital capitalist economy. There are three important differences in their theoretical framework: (1) Marx did not believe that high technological unemployment is possible within capitalism even with very advanced technologies such as AI, while Ricardo saw technological unemployment as a serious threat while he acknowledges countervailing employment-creating tendencies; (2) While Ricardo’s explanation for the falling rate of profit is limited to rising wages, Marx traces the profit decline to the rising organic composition of capital and automation itself; (3) For Marx, a desirable future of work is not found within a capitalist framework but in communism, while Ricardo sees no alternatives to capitalism.

subw00f commented on Critical vulnerability in AI coding platform Base44 allowing unauthorized access wiz.io/blog/critical-vuln... · Posted by u/waldopat

toddmorey · a month ago

"The vulnerability we discovered was remarkably simple to exploit - by providing only a non-secret app_id value to undocumented registration and email verification endpoints." So you could sign yourself up as editor / collaborator on any app once you knew the app's ID.

Jeez, that's sloppy. My colleague in 2000 discovered you could browse any account on his bank's website by just changing the (sequential!) account IDs in the URL. In a lot of ways we've made great strides in security over the last 25 years... and in many ways, we haven't.

subw00f · a month ago

Prepare for a whole new era of step backs when everyone is a “prompt engineer”.

subw00f commented on We're all CTO now jamie.ideasasylum.com/202... · Posted by u/fside

yoav · 2 months ago

Maybe that’s because the AI pushers are compensating for already not being as good.

What happens when other yous start using ai. I suspect they will obv outperform you just in sheer typing speed.

subw00f · 2 months ago

I don’t agree. There’s a “muscle” you train every time you think about problems and solve them, and I say muscle because it also atrophies.

subw00f commented on Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown phys.org/news/2025-05-pri... · Posted by u/pseudolus

jfengel · 4 months ago

The megalomaniac actually did the launch. Other lunar satellites have attracted a bit more attention than this, though, so I'm not sure why this is the first I've heard of it.

subw00f · 4 months ago

No, he did not. Multiple teams of very capable people did the launch.