The same EU that threaten E2EE?
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HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Everyday I think the European Union for preventing the internet from being worse than it could be. It’s sad that back when the internet was a cesspool was so far the best age for it. Normies really do ruin everything
Rengoku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
matz_e@feddit.de 11 months ago
The EU has its faults, too, like this BS about sacrificing encryption. Overall, there seem to be a lot of benefits reigning in big companies, though.
Who else is looking out for their citizens? I think some congresspeople in the US ask tough questions, but in the end, business just goes on as usual.
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 11 months ago
It’s not the sheep’s fault they’re led to the meat grinder
mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
If a private company has to succeed, it has to offer things** that normies want.** FB/G is shit because this is what normies consume - the ego-display, the dopamine kick. In every enshittification of a service, there is a history of it being cravingly indulged by the mass. Now when the companies started rising up and used their monopoly, they (the normies) are realizing they have been shit-eating for a long time. One may argue the companies were not so in the beginning, but that would be a very myopic view.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Normally it wouldn’t be, but these sheep were told “Do not go to this farm or you will be cooked.” and responded with “Pffft, that’ll happen to the other guy…” or “Pfft you’re just whining because you expect everything just handed to you”
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
But they weren’t led. They were convinced by big tech. But in the end they choose to go into the meat grinder themselves.
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 11 months ago
But they weren’t led. They were convinced by…
Same difference man
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
“Normies”? Seriously?
Because “normies” are responsible for the entshitification of the Internet right?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
As much as I loathe that term, it could be argued that they indirectly are.
The massive increase in the amount of people online made it profitable for companies to be online. Lack of regulations and the inability for regulators to keep up with technological advancements allowed companies to maximize profits at the expense of everything else. The complete inability of government to prevent monetary influence on legislature has prevented good regulations from developing. The fact that the average person online uses maybe five websites in total and doesn’t engage further means that most issues fly under the radar of the average person, which limits the ability of any significant amount of constituents to pressure the politicians supposedly representing them to do better, and limits the overall impact of any movement away from shitty sites to better ones.
It’s a tangled yarn ball, but one that would struggle to exist without a majority of people to pull money from who just do not care about any of the shit that people more deeply invested in the internet care about.
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Honestly, I see your argument. I don’t fully agree with it, but thank you for enlightening me.
random65837@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re also trying to wiretap the whole thing… pay attention to EVERYTHING that’s in a bill, not just the clickbait stuff you agree with.
twotone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t be an asshole and blame regular people for shit like this. This is because of big tech
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Actually I will, because big Tech used to be on the level because they knew they would be called out for fuckery. Then Facebook brought the Baby Boomers online and it was the Eternal September on steroids.
nyanyans@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Those are still actions made by the tech companies. Blaming people for not complaining enough is not the best take on this. Just shifts the blame to the public, not to the people who made those decisions in the first place
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
This is the same chicken / egg thing as plastic pollutions.
Sure consumers choice of whether to discard or recycle a plastic straw is nothing compared to the decisions of corporations, but then consumers invest in those companies, buy their products, and elect representatives who do not hold them accountable.
Big tech has ruined the internet because people were willing to trade their privacy and their attention in order to watch gifs of cats playing the piano. I’m not “blaming” people for that - hell, I was one of them, but you can’t solve the problem without understanding how it’s perpetuated.
LogarithmicCamel@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The normies support big tech, they love it. They probably work for big tech, or wish they did, or at least imagine themselves as the next Elon Musk.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The “normies” don’t even know what these things are. It’s just the big blue “f” on their phone, or the colourful camera icon.
Half this shit is installed by default on pretty much any phone you can buy.
CaptainProton@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Strictly speaking, management at Big Tech are all normies and they make the decisions.
I think the point is solid: non-tech-people sell capabilities to other non-tech-people to make money, and this forms a feedback loop and drives direction. A non-big-tech world is wildly different because it’s more like tech people building an environment for doing things with other tech people.
twotone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Management of big tech are excessively rich assholes. The rich, by the very definition, do not fall into the category of “normal people”
RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Strictly speaking, that’s nonsense. Is everyone that’s not you a normie? Or is normie a ‘normal person’, which then absolutely does not include rich managers of big tech companies.
Really strange point to make, man.
scottywh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Don’t be an asshole”? As a response to a two sentence statement.
I think you’re the fucking asshole regardless of how much blame “big tech” and corporations in general bear here.
Slow the fuck down.