I was once called a “right winger” and a “trump supporter” over on reddit because I talked about how awesome self-governing local communities would be.
Who better to decide what happens in a town than the people who actually live there?
There’s paid trolls and bots that muddy the waters about everything.
Anyone who still thinks that is either new to Linux or profoundly naive.
People still shit downvotes on me whenever I talk about how linux isn’t perfect.
Microsoft, for all its faults is at least honest enough to admit outright that their software needs protection. They’re still not honest about what kind of protection it needs. But at least they’re not going to yoink anything off your system they don’t want you to use like Apple does
they don’t even need to put shit directly on our devices to get what they want really, they have a wiretap into all the advertising companies and all the internet providers and all the cellphone and land line providers. They have a wiretap into every remotely accessible camera system. They don’t need to come up with more invasive ways to get into all our shit but they keep doing it.