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We're still figuring out what our policies are regarding federation and moderation but illegal nasty shit is not allowed and it will never be and illegal non-nasty shit (I.E. software piracy, whistling a copyrighted song, etc ) is only allowed in external communities (for now).

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Forcing your computer to rat you out (pluralistic.net)
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2757988

"When we let corporations decide who is allowed to speak, they act with a mixture of carelessness and self-interest, becoming off-the-books deputies of authoritarian regimes and corrupt, powerful elites.

Alas, we made the wrong tradeoff with Trusted Computing. For the past twenty years, Trusted Computing has been creeping into our devices, albeit in somewhat denatured form. "

"As I wrote last week, giving manufacturers the power to decide how your computer is configured, overriding your own choices, is a bad tradeoff - the worst tradeoff, a greased slide into terminal enshittification"

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Forcing your computer to rat you out (pluralistic.net)
 
 

"When we let corporations decide who is allowed to speak, they act with a mixture of carelessness and self-interest, becoming off-the-books deputies of authoritarian regimes and corrupt, powerful elites.

Alas, we made the wrong tradeoff with Trusted Computing. For the past twenty years, Trusted Computing has been creeping into our devices, albeit in somewhat denatured form. "

"As I wrote last week, giving manufacturers the power to decide how your computer is configured, overriding your own choices, is a bad tradeoff - the worst tradeoff, a greased slide into terminal enshittification"

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