Laws to allow companies to permanently fuck up our children…

Only if you’re stuck in the past.

And this is why they want to know everything we’re doing online at all times.

There Are 100 Computers Hiding in Your Car Right Now (You’re Riding a Data Center mobile surveillance and anti-privacy device on Wheels)

Yeah, treating ppl like humans costs things. It always comes down to these right wingers refusing to spend resources to treat anything other than themselves with any concern at all.

But have their beleifs and values changed? Or do they just not think the right will further those interests anymore?

The more of you that is digital, the more of you they will see. Their ignorance of your life is a critical protection for you, from them.

I’m insisting on that at all. If that’s what you read, that’s perhaps your own fear talking.

They do what they have always done, gain control and shape it in their own interests, regardless of the cost to others. This is endemic to businesses itself. Business the the root cause of all market enshitification.

Sure but we build them on the orders of whoever signs our paychecks so we can stay alive. People fuck each other over at their jobs every single day by helping companies succeed at their ambitions. Theoretically we have power in numbers but we rarely even actually use that power.

These are the challenges we face, it doesn’t serve anything to pretend they don’t exist.

I have serious doubts that returning to a ludite existence is truly feasible anymore. These companies, along with governments, seem intent on making it a necessity to be online and to do so without privacy.

The CEO of nvidea outright said their plans for the future involve AI agents accessing your financials and PCs being replaced with AI boxes as our interface. If they force AI into enough stuff before the bubble bursts, it won’t be a choice. The way the net works will be built for AI, not for users to manually interface with. If the infrastructure is rebuilt for AI, it won’t be a choice. With governments all pushing for OS level Id, Microsoft trying to record all user action, the push to ban VPNs, it seems like you will be making that choice sooner than you want.

I hope it works out for you but anyone who remembers a pre-internet life is middle age now and isn’t the target market for emerging tech anymore. If AI proves to be significantly advantageous, not being online to sue it will be like refusing to use computers was to the boomers. You’ll be outcompeted and lose track of how the world is changing.

For who? Where? I’m what?

So it isn’t a choice between privacy invasion or watching it burn. It’s a choice between privacy invasion and being left behind.

For now. We’ve already seen behaviors become culturally suspect simply because they became uncommon. Not too far from vilification from there, then fear mongering, then criminalizing. I worry the value of us not having privacy is too profitable to withstand the effort to remove it.

They don’t care if kids do since that isn’t the purpose, just the excuse.

Do you even know the extent of things they know and what that information allows them to derive about you? They know the patterns of life of billions of people. You’re just a pattern to match with everyone else just like you.

We have more than we will and for some of us, who made the sacrifices and took steps, more than others.

Parents spend less time with their children than the state and culture does. Parents all work 8-10 hours a day, they can’t feasibly solve this through parenting, not without ensuring parents have the time and resources necessary to parent. That’s also not just to partner in the right directions, but to counter the efforts of billion dollar companies and governments who are all teaching children lessons that drive them in bad directions.

Parenting is not possible in the way it was in the past. Some kind of community parenting may work, but that’s an informed concept.

But it won’t burn, it will be content to leave you behind.