You think the existing backbone doesn't suppress comms? Look into what happens to people trying to complain about Bell charities as one example. (Or how incredibly difficult it is to obtain an effective ad blocker.)
Nothing is safe. Nothing is ever safe, or can be safe. Safe is one of those delusions borne of a capacity to hypothesize.
Power does not stop existing because of how you feel about it. Lots of it currently exists, and is exercised to purpose inimical to anyone who doesn't have it, which is statistically everyone.
What Rogers (and the other Canadian telcos, though Rogers has the worst corporate culture and is ahead of the curve) does is bill you, and increase the amount that it bills you. All else is entirely secondary and has been for decades. Yet Rogers is now making decisions about the entire Canadian economy with no accountability whatsoever.
We are moving into a time when field agriculture fails; we are moving into a time when most of humanity will be displaced from their homes. (This is not grounds to suppose late capitalism is a defensible system! It's put a lot of effort into prevent the public consensus that these outcomes are bad from becoming operant.) There are going to be a great many things I don't like even before I die. "I won't like that" is a silly thing to be worried about.
The system needs to function; the civil power least retains a de jure notion that "function" is something individual citizens get to have an operant opinion about. It can be designed to regard feedback.
"Trust" is a scale error, like morals; of course you should not ever trust anything on larger-than-immediate-personal scales. You should be looking for sufficient feedback, and aware that you might not be able to get it, or get it in the form you most want. Politics-of-feels produces horrors; politics of functional specification and measured results can work OK. It's not guaranteed, but it's possible, as it is not possible of the feels. (There isn't enough information in the feels to control a sufficiently complex system.)
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Date: 2022-07-10 03:55 pm (UTC)You think the existing backbone doesn't suppress comms? Look into what happens to people trying to complain about Bell charities as one example. (Or how incredibly difficult it is to obtain an effective ad blocker.)
Nothing is safe. Nothing is ever safe, or can be safe. Safe is one of those delusions borne of a capacity to hypothesize.
Power does not stop existing because of how you feel about it. Lots of it currently exists, and is exercised to purpose inimical to anyone who doesn't have it, which is statistically everyone.
What Rogers (and the other Canadian telcos, though Rogers has the worst corporate culture and is ahead of the curve) does is bill you, and increase the amount that it bills you. All else is entirely secondary and has been for decades. Yet Rogers is now making decisions about the entire Canadian economy with no accountability whatsoever.
We are moving into a time when field agriculture fails; we are moving into a time when most of humanity will be displaced from their homes. (This is not grounds to suppose late capitalism is a defensible system! It's put a lot of effort into prevent the public consensus that these outcomes are bad from becoming operant.) There are going to be a great many things I don't like even before I die. "I won't like that" is a silly thing to be worried about.
The system needs to function; the civil power least retains a de jure notion that "function" is something individual citizens get to have an operant opinion about. It can be designed to regard feedback.
"Trust" is a scale error, like morals; of course you should not ever trust anything on larger-than-immediate-personal scales. You should be looking for sufficient feedback, and aware that you might not be able to get it, or get it in the form you most want. Politics-of-feels produces horrors; politics of functional specification and measured results can work OK. It's not guaranteed, but it's possible, as it is not possible of the feels. (There isn't enough information in the feels to control a sufficiently complex system.)