This is actually another shitification. Because your identity is attached to your real i.d If a company feels they have lost business from your review, you are personally liable and at the very least the provider is. So google or yelp are incentivized to hide or completely remove real,useful or negative reviews. This has happened many many times, and so the review system that should be helpful is broken. All the reviews you see are vapid or short and skewed towards the positive.

And they (we, i include myself in this) are getting it wrong. Think about it this way: If the only way i can transfer value to someone safely in 2023 for a pizza, is on a 14 year old liberated computer without intel ME, running some janky ass linux distro, running a vpn, running tor, using non-kyc bitcoin i got from bisq(oh my god, don't get me started on fucking bisq) just to not have my data used against me at some point in the future, when in 1990 or even 2010, i could achive the exact same level of privacy with none of those tools, we are doing something wrong.

I am not saying these tools and this fight are accomplishing good things. I'm saying the efforts are so diffuse as to be homeopathic. We need a nation level response to these nation and supra nation level attacks. Modern Open source hardware,software,payment,services suite. Top to bottom. Or perish, Apple/Amazon are the best. They will wipe us the fuck out.

Apple let alone all of FANG is like two or three times the entire Open Source/crypto/Bitcoin market cap combined. They are a nation. What the fuck is your OpenBSD libc license from 1991 going to do about that ?This stuff keeps me up at night, i think there might be 10 to 20 other people with no money or power this keeps up at night. Apple vision Should have scared the fuck out of everyone. It did not. Every one is just going to sleep walk into that shit. Meanwhile the answers to them such as simula VR, PowerPc laptop Limp along with funding in the fractions of what single FANG luncheon cost.

Oh well, guess i'll just download the latest Debian re-skin and fuck around with a new re-invented package manager.

Name one thing. One non-medical thing, that has added only positive outcomes. Not only are we not in a better place we are in the same place at best or a worse place. Objectively. The internet has expanded the scope of consequences for ones actions beyond time and worse non-action to the immediate. It's not a glass half full or empty thing. I'm saying the water in the glass is brown.

Welcome to my TED talk.