If holding a giant private corporation accountable is the battle you want to take before the government, aside from all the other problems society faces, go for it.
I’d never be caught dead complaining about how I “got screwed over” by entering an arrangement I knew about up front.
I would complain about government deciding the way the world worked decades before I was born as if that’s how it must work forever.
You emit whatever syntax your limbic system pushes your cortex to supply motor agency to, what’s useful inside your little bubble.
I’ll argue in mine. Aside from time/place of our body, it’s all we can do anyway.
Email works fine. I am in months long conversations with academics and thinkers around the world.
Signal works fine. Same story as above.
What’s dying is your historical connectivity to specific ideas.
That’s hardly a sign fascism and censorship are settling in.
And really you’re saying it was impossible for anyone to blindly get addicted to an RSS feed, just reading whatever is posted to it?
Good grief. Your brain is experiencing chemical shock over one of thousands of epistemological inventions going away. That’s akin to the dark ages literally returning?
Perhaps your connection to current events is coloring your thoughts here. RSS still exists. History wasn’t sucked into a black hole.
This is what’s deflating about the tech scene. All these weird hills to die on, as if some favored bespoke language that is only 10-12 years old anyway losing popular favor means 1984 is upon us!
You fail to define what the legitimate issues are.
They have no real hardware or store monopoly, Android still out numbers them in install base.
Legally it’s undecided at all. This is essentially complaining Walmart and Target use different means of revenue generation for placing product.
Maybe Microsoft can get a phone and store off the ground that has a bigger install base. Oh wait. Maybe app sellers should have heeded the warnings when app stores launched about this exact problem!
Just because you and others don’t feel good about it doesn’t mean it’s legitimate.
App sellers have a legitimate issue with Apple after choosing to go all in knowing how it works.
Walmart called on regulators to do the dirty work of controlling how Target negotiates the sale of shelf space within its walls.
“As one of the largest retailers in the world, making billions each year in profit, it’s unconscionable if we sat by not calling out others for doing the same.”
Walmart continued, “It’s imperative that we sully our competitions brand to make gains in the financial markets. Without state backed protectionism for large enterprises, us Barons are really just being hung out to dry.”
Walmart has continued to profit mightily, but it says the complaint is predicated on the fact they could be profiting MORE if someone forced Target to behave more like the rest of the majority.
When asked if Walmart had considered rebuilding its own image to gain business, there was a pause, before the conversation returned to targeting Target.
Walmart blew of criticism it’s used the market to wipe out competition in the past. When asked why they simply don’t do that to Target they replied, “Target is too big financially. So we need a bigger bully they can’t damage in return to stand up for us gritty, ruggedly individual elites. It’s the story of humanity to build government that’s coddles and pampers a privileged minority. It should be no different now.”
When it was suggested the public should advocate for dissolution of middlemen landlords in general, rather than drag the public courts through a pissing contest between blowhards, and stop wasting its precious time resource arbitrating the concerns of petty rich guys, the room laughed.
I’d never be caught dead complaining about how I “got screwed over” by entering an arrangement I knew about up front.
I would complain about government deciding the way the world worked decades before I was born as if that’s how it must work forever.
You emit whatever syntax your limbic system pushes your cortex to supply motor agency to, what’s useful inside your little bubble.
I’ll argue in mine. Aside from time/place of our body, it’s all we can do anyway.