Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 days agoNot today anymore. Social-media and the state-of-stupid of the web inhibit that. The masses don’t even know what to protest for or against. And without MASSIVE numbers you’d achieve nothing. Someone just needs to throw enough moneyz at the problem (or pay thousands to flood the net with “I love our overlords because XYZ”) until it’s gone.
It was hard to topple a king some 100yrs ago, but today? We don’t even know our kings anymore. Besides those few media-clown-babies that so desperately crave attention to fill a bottomless void of darkness inside them.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Yeah we’re definitely playing on hardcore mode. There are some reasons for optimism though. A lot of people who wouldn’t think about these things a few years ago are talking about class. I’m talking regular peope I know. These issues were just not on our horizon until recently. They see things very differently than they used to. That’s the hopium I’m huffing. 😄
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’d sniff a line of that hopium too. I just don’t see it being available in the foreseeable future. At least not for an affordable price 😁