There’s a part of me that wants to cringe from the conspiracy thinking clear in this response. Unfortunately, the logical, observational part of me is much bigger. I see the patterns on this one.

I just this morning got a privacy update from my Asus router. They’re going to start collecting my usage. I clicked disagree, and it went to another popup warning that I will lose most of the features I rely upon, with a button “re-read”. How is this not extortion?

Now I have to go through the traumatic process of installing wwdrt and hope I don’t brick my internet access entirely.

Several months ago, my brother scanner software would not work until I gave it permission to send my scans to their server. I no longer use that software.

The surveillance state is expanding at an exponential rate. We are amidst the " great reset" the right wingers warned of, but it is driven by their “great” leaders.