alt Hacker News>Pretty soon you won't even be able to use your Linux. Everything will be attested.
I want to rescue this snippet.
Few of us remember the "fight" and discussions that happened when Firefox first pondered the idea of allowing encrypted video on the platform. Same with Linux. This was when The powers that be forced Netflix and other video distributors to introduce that opaque tech in the web. The same thing happened with DeCSS and Linux DVD playing; but that generation was a bit more... revel.
But we as a society are indeed slowly and steadily giving away our rights of many, for the rights of few cartels.
It's been a sad journey to see for someone born in the early 80s.
> But we as a society are indeed slowly and steadily giving away our rights of many, for the rights of few cartels.
Increasing geopolitical multi-polarity may force big tech to give up ground. The EU and ASEAN in particular should be hitting Google et al. with the regulatory hammer.
When we get clearer heads back in power (Lina Khan was great, but moved much too slow), they ought to carve the tech cos into Baby Bells. Horizontally so they have to compete with themselves.
> It's been a sad journey to see for someone born in the early 80s.
The dream of the open web, privacy, freedom of speech, and freedom of computing is being killed by the oligarchy. And they convinced us the progressive thing to do was to give them our labor - they hung us with it.