• Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    This is one of the things I don’t get about any of this shit - if we were talking about physical items, letters, a hard landline, physical art, written medical information, etc. this would require a warrant, court order or whatever. Why the fuck is digital anything viewed as a free-for-all by govts, AI techbros, data brokers et al. How do they not understand that just because something is ‘digital’ it doesn’t deserve the same protections as before?!

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      13 hours ago

      The situation is all kinds of messed up, capitalism also has a great deal to do with it. Problem is, that you as an individual will be known as stealing copyright material if you simply copied it, whereas someone/something else like AI would be treated entirely differently.

      It kind of does look like a capitalist utopia with the rule breaking ai and all, authoritarianism being the other prevalent power.

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      11 hours ago

      I truly believe our politicians are out of touch. Either because they themselves are too old or because they dont understand the underlying concepts.

      What truly upsets me is understanding things like USBs and HDDs still exists. So if someone wanted to share “illegal content” completely “offline” it’s already possible to do so. How does scanning everyone’s personal “letters” help track down people sharing “illegal content” hand to hand.