That was just for the growth and acquisition phase, using the network effect to capture consumers and businesses, get them addicted and dependent on the product, and then build a wall around them to lock them into your platform.

It’s a classic bait and switch, and if we didn’t live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracy” it’d be illegal.

Cultural appropriation huh

Just “corporate dictatorship masquerading as democracy” things.

The same dystopian enshittification is going on pretty much everywhere, you just aren’t aware of it yet.

Revolutions are actually more like a powderkeg. Once a significant proportion of the population become apathetic and angry, all it takes is a spark to ignite it. This has repeated many times throughout history. Most recently in Syria, where a decade of civil war deadlock completely evaporated in a few months.

What we need is a relatively small number people like this https://youtube.com/watch?v=V74AxCqOTvg

What happened? We live in corporate dictatorships where oligarchs can false advertise, price gouge, kick your dog, and fuck your wife… and your only recourse is a class action lawsuit where you make a few bucks after a decade.

OP also completely neglects the geopolitical and demographic history that lead to the rise of US tech companies, and the continuous brain drain from elsewhere to the US.

After WW2 Europe and Asia were destroyed. It took decades to rebuild. The benefit of this to America can’t be overstated. A significant proportion of the worlds scientific community emigrated throughout the 20th Century because of this. US tech companies had the wealthiest capitalists/investors, and the most skilled labor pool. America also had a much higher wealth inequality, so all companies that came after benefited enormously from a comparatively wealthier and experienced skilled labor pool. Then add the neoliberal low tax, low minimum wage, and undocumented slave labor funneling money to all these companies.

Capital — especially preexisting capital — is the greatest determinator for success. The EU is not doing it wrong. The US is! It’s a corporate dictatorship, now descending into totalitarian fascist dictatorship.

I used a 360 camera app on iOS for years. Probably 2010 to 2016. Don’t think there’s been a decent replacement or alternative since it was removed from the app store.

iOS is enshittifying too.

Where’s Luigi at?

The entirety of global capitalism is lining up to bend the knee and gargle fascist balls.

This is what leftists have been warning forever. Capitalism wants the monopolies, bailouts — the political, financial and military backing, etc — that state-capitalist dictatorships provide. Democratically elected governments, acting in the interests of the people, are really the only threat to the corporate oligarchies wealth and power.

All of the wests “enemies” are equally supportive of fascism, because state-capitalist dictators are easier to influence (bribe).

You are why humanity will end up with fascist dystopian big brother, and you’re probably too ignorant to even understand how or why.

Start criminal proceedings to imprison the leadership responsible for non-compliance. Seize their assets to pay for any fine.

Why do we accept that all solutions to corporate crimes should be fines and kiddie gloves?

Freedom and privacy were cancelled with Citizens United. I suggest you take up your concerns with the corporate dictatorship who doesn’t give a shit.

Unless you own the AI model, and can run it on your own hardware, it’s profoundly stupid. People will become slaves to the corporation who holds their AI relationship hostage. They can kill your “loved one” at any time, for any reason.

The things we find cute are not necessarily the things which we associate with predators. We find prey animals cute too.

The peacock jumping spider is cute af.

What makes you think your beliefs represent the majority, or have any relevance to what the most successful criminally corrupt predators want?

That’s because the US is a corporate dictatorship masquerading as a “democracy”.

Fascism wants an internet where you have to verify your identity to use it at all. Capitalists want the same, and they’ve already built a turnkey totalitarianism mass surveillance precursor to big brother on behalf of neoliberal “democracies”. They will 100% finish the job for fascism. This was always the endgame of mass surveillance.

Now the EU needs to make it a legal requirement that every cable sold includes an engraving of the speed and watts on both ends.

The fact this dogshit continued for so long is unforgivable. Capitalism is most efficient my ass. It’s like the USB specs naming convention was outsourced to the dumbest, most illiterate engineers alive.

On second thought, the profit motive indicates the naming convention was probably done to intentionally create confusion and sell more cables.

This is a terrible idea, and only makes it 10x easier for surveillance capitalism to track, profile, and propagandize the entire population.

This line of reasoning is basically using “won’t someone think of the children” fear mongering to hand over the keys to big brother.