Bruce Schneier's also echoed Chomsky in a way when he said that surveillance was the business model of the Internet.
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I'm not inherently against the idea of advertising. I get why it exists, and I'm all for it. What I resent and have no intention of complying with, are the attempts at identifying me and collecting my data, as a means to 'manipulate' me into buying things. And, it also can't ruin my experience on the site. If advertisements were minimal and invasive, didn't try installing all kinds of ad/bloat-ware on my machine, you'd never see me making any attempt to protect myself against it.
It reminds me when Jaron Lanier said in today's world, anytime two people come together on the Internet, that arrangement is financed by a third party, that believes he can manipulate the first two. I really miss the good old days when the Internet was still a dirt road you could meet fellow travelers on, and have fun exploring it.
You wouldn't believe how many times I got called a 'Putin' shill on r/geopolitics and elsewhere.
Don’t get ahead of yourself. Most people ‘vastly’ overestimate their ability to spot propaganda.
You’re arguing against a position that’s every bit as dumb and I’ll-informed, as the chick that heads up the NED, attempting to overthrow regimes opposed to the US all over the world. The people replying to you in ignorance aren’t in need of a ‘debate’, but an education.
Well that’s part of the problem globalization has caused that policymakers have been unable to solve thus far. When the available pool of candidates expands from the state or the domestic national market, to virtually the entire world, labor becomes devalued.
Semiconductor manufacturing is something you absolutely can ‘not’ cost cut on. The level of labor and capital intensity required is enormous.
Because configuring it leaves you just as confused as the average transperson is?
Sorry. I had to.
I remember getting a lot of push back not too long ago, when I tried telling a group of people that 'good news' is something you have to pay for, because it's difficult to do.
The MSM, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, all that crap is simply the most overt propaganda, tailor made for a mass audience, and free, precisely because it isn't valuable. A subscription to something like The Economist, beats anything the average person wants to compare it to. Or those one-man progressive outlets on YouTube, who went to community college and left with a degree, run their gig out of a one bedroom studio, and think they've got the entire world figured out.