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It was only “in error” because they were caught.
How does blocking Linux benefit them?
deals with Microsoft or any other competitor who may want to silence alternatives.
This was the exact same line of thinking I went down.
I mean it makes sense. Both M$ and Apple (and Google with vanilla Android) are quite surveillance-centric, it only makes sense to try to keep the population under a watchful eye to stay ahead of any potential challenges to their authority. They hate the thought of people doing anything digitally that they can’t keep tabs on.
do a bad thing
get caught
oops, it was just an error
repeat
I don’t know what pisses me off more, that Facebook does this kind of stuff, or that they’re utter snively cowards when called out for their crap moves.
They are trying to see what they can get away with.
This should really be the canary in the coal mine for just how bad things are going to get.
Probably time to start spinning up some shit like that, actually. Keep an eye on a broad index of salient search terms / hashtags, watch for dropouts.
How many errors was it just this year?
Oh come on it’s only been 31 for the whole year!
(this joke doesn’t work in 2 days please add +1 to each day)
funny how they never make errors in favour of anyone else but themselves
Ain’t no way it’s a error.
Alfred emerged from the densest part of the eucalptus grove. All around him, his tiny bots unobtrusively kept pace. Every one was in violation of local law, containing not a single chip in thrall to the Department of Homeland Security. While Vaz continued to play Bollywood exec through the public net, these devices provided him with his own network and countermeasures.
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