It never was free thinking.
It styled itself in that way to capture the upper-middle class market segment of people who wanted to use technology but couldn’t be bothered to learn how
Like every tech company, they sell you the ability to access the fruits of technology in exchange for your privacy and, in doing so, ensure you never have the motivation to learn how to do it yourself.
Want to watch a movie? Don’t worry about learning about media files, players, codecs, etc. Just install this spyware on your phone and pay us $9 $12 $15 $19.99/mo and you’ll never have to learn.
You’re already on Lemmy, so most of you understand the stakes of signing up for corporate mediated technology. Just don’t use their products.
Willowthewisp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
There’s tons of pictures of Tim hanging out with trump so I think it’s pretty obvious.