Same with VISA/Mastercard deciding what we can/cannot buy. The only solution is to stop using their credit cards at all.
replyEasy to say, but every bank I've had the (dis)pleasure of doing business with only ever issued a Visa or Mastercard so it's not really feasible to just "stop using them"
replyThe only solution to MacDonald's and Burger King deciding what we can/cannot order on their menus is to stop eating there.
reply"Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell."
replyYes, Monero is a lot better than credit cards for privacy and freedom. I hope to see it accepted more.
replyIts not only the corporate america. Those crypto scammers do the same simply rallies and tries again later until people are too fatigued to care.
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replyI hope this has some answers [1]. It’s on the front page right now, but your frustration clearly seems to have some implicit answers that [1] is trying to answer.
replyThis is more on brand on the evil shortcomings that comes with letting effective altruism run unchecked and honestly is worse than average "Corporate America". And the Tech/AI Space have been warned many times.
Getting paid for providing a compute/token hungry model and still intentionally sabotaging your customers and poisoning their workflows is something that should be unforgivable and frankly ground for antitrust prosecution.
reply"Corporate America never backs down. It simply rallies and tries again later until people are too fatigued to care. "
replyFrankly, that sounds excactly like Chat Control and similar recurring attempts to enact total surveillance here in the EU (Now shifted to heavy-handed age verification and various politicians touting bans on VPNs.) I don't want to abandon my continent of birth, though...
guess who is pushing for those anti-privacy laws?
replyhint: they're publicly traded
I have encountered enough such people to know that the really heavy push is coming from the police and secret service circles. These are the workplaces that attract all the wannabe Stasi types.
replyI am 100% convinced the reason laptops came with webcams as standard so early on, even when webcams were an expensive option, was because law enforcement needed to spy on people.
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