I’m like 99% sure that they’ve written off millennials as a total loss as a generation they can control and are grooming Gen alpha to be their little human slaves. The ‘smart’ tech guys decided that cyberpunk dystopia was inevitable and decided to make it themselves.

This. And with the mumblings of autonomous AI kill bots it would be next to nothing in a decade or so for them to detect non-compliant networked devices. Everything already tries to map your network. Imagine you have a degoogled phone and some robocop detects it and arrests you because you have a suspicious device.

The autonomous robot thing freaks me the fuck out. Imagine a cop that could access your phone and listen to your conversations, track you in real time and never get tired. If that happens it’s game over. It’s not happening this year, but in 5 years? With how much money they are dumping into the industry?

They don’t care if the country collapses. They’re designing the next one.

I’m pretty sure that’s part of the point. Kill third party and DIY hardwares and softwares. Even if you could develope alternative tech you can’t monetize it because it wouldn’t meet regulation. The only option becomes hardware as a service, which you validate your age with the host and your pi just becomes virtualized hardware if it exists at all.

It’s not just about survaliance. It’s about crushing self-educators and putting the working class in a digital environment that is one-way and has no exits.

They’re revolutionizing the internet and technology so you can only access what they want and how they want.

Big tech is using very sophisticated methods to lock us out.

I know this isn’t the point of the article, but I’m starting to get really pissy about software updates implementing high-level non-security related changes to my fucking fully paid for device!

It doesn’t do anything but I’m starting to refuse to agree to any new user agreements.

It’s pretty much nothing.

I have 3 different AI agents that were forced onto my phone between Google, Samsung, and Microsoft.

Well, yes, but also considered that many companies are just implementing invasive identification practices anyway. Discord is just the most recent. It seems to have the added benefit of being an added barrier to market entry for their competitors.

…and out right kills some of those competitors who’s business model depends ds on privacy.

We’re starting to see more and more of this. These tech companies that used to be innovators and favor a somewhat open internet aren’t building for innovation and communication. They’re building dependence.

Between Google, Meta, and Microsoft the average user is being locked into a digital gilded cage. Policed by AI with no heavy censorship and no ownership of data.

Yes this law was defeated but the fight is endless, and right now we need to be watching big tech as much as lawmakers.