Post #3419322
2026-06-27 03:32 UTC
Replies (5)
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@Auster@thebrainbin.org 2026-06-27 04:01
Also pushing for DRM-free contents, and understanding the only plan being destruction only benefits those who discreetly hoard power. And tangential, but money is trivial when one has power. Plus, these companies seem to just joard control, while answering to centralizing countries. So I would wonder if truly the intent is "capitalism", with whatever negative adjectives are added to further distort the combined notion of free market, minimalist state and meritocracy.
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@OwOarchist@pawb.social 2026-06-27 06:09
Yes and no. A lot of the content is made by creators who have no interest in justifying surveillance. And even the ones that do try to justify things like that … if you keep your brain awake, you can probably enjoy things without internalizing the message.
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@silly_goose@lemmy.today 2026-06-27 07:18
gives them a platform to justify their surveillance How does that work? I thought piracy and watching youtube with adblock actually drains the resources of big tech faster than a boycott.
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@Azzu@leminal.space 2026-06-27 07:55
When I pirate something, I have no clue what company or service it is from. How is it giving them a platform?
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@technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-27 14:21
Piracy still gives them a platform to justify their surveillance. It’s a bullshit justification and they would be surveilling anyway. The only correct take is a full boycott False. There is no such thing as a “correct take” much less a single correct viewpoint. There are many valid means to resist capitalism. Piracy is generally better than boycotting because it’s easier and requires no sacrifice. Thus it is far more likely to be widely adopted, as we’ve already seen. Many many people are already pirating compared to some imaginary boycott.