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<div class="center" style="font-size:200%; letter-spacing: 0.1em; color:#777;">They will not save us.</div>
<div class="center" style="font-size:60%; letter-spacing:0.1em;">Lose your faith in the legal system.</div>
The legal system will probably not save us. In fact, it has been '''protecting''' the big tech oligopoly all along.
Examples include the [[DMCA Section 1201]] outlawing the removal of digital restrictions malware (DRM) and making some kinds of repair a legal mine field, and patent laws making it a legal mine field for anyone to create products competing with the oligopoly, if they even get that far.<ref>[https://www.defectivebydesign.org/faq#circumvent DRM Frequently Asked Questions &#x7C; Defective by Design]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20251023035930/https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/patent.html Patent - LRS Wiki]</ref> Also, remember what treatment the hero who leaked the iPhone 4 prototype to the public back in 2010 has received?<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQkoZX9Mog Real Thoughts on Tech Leaks!] - Marques Brownlee</ref> Now they are increasing surveillance with mandatory age verification in operating systems.<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCMNAVBGSQ&t=464 OS Age Verification: Millions Of Predators With GPS In Your Kid's Pocket, Required By Law!] - Jody Bruchon</ref><ref>[https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2026/03/msg00000.html On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states] - lists.debian.org</ref>
As you can see, the nepotist legal system has a history of overwhelmingly siding with the '''big corporations against the users''', not the other way round. It has been '''actively''' (and passively through inaction and inertia) '''supporting'''  the big corporations in taking away nice things. And now we are begging to the very same legal system to come and save ''us''?
What do I mean by "inertia"? We have to fight battles to get governors to notice us and gracefully give us back tiny bits of repairability and freedom, all while technofascists in skyscrapers only had to snap their fingers and DRM was law.
We have been waiting since over 20 years for the law against non-replaceable batteries.<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTcavAzopg iPod's Dirty Secret - from 2003] - Casey Neistat</ref> In a system that sided with consumers, this shouldn't have taken until the next sunrise, let alone 20 years. Did the technofascist RIAA have to wait 20 years to realize its wet dream of DMCA, a stupid law that bankrupted entire families because someone harmlessly copied a dozen music tracks?<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUm6no5MXYA The People Who Were Sued for Downloading Music... What Ever Happened?] - Bandsplaining</ref> Even if you believe this should not go unpunished, it is safe to say that these punishments are wildly disproportionate.
It probably won't be long until the Linux Foundation (headquartered in California) will be forced to implement backdoors like Microsoft, and technocrats in skyscrapers will, without further ado, make a law against removing those backdoors - the very same thing they did with DRM.<ref>[https://digdeeper.club/articles/technological_slavery.xhtml Technological slavery] - Dig Deeper</ref> Yes, they can.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20251024131239/https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/yes_they_can.html Yes They Can] - Miloslav Číž</ref> If ''you'' can think of it, so can ''they''.
We have to - in one way or the other - take matters into our own hands.
As for how we are going to accomplish this, I unfortunately don't have the answers. But what I ''do'' know is that hoping for some legal miracle to give us back our freedoms and ownership over what we paid for - is not it.
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<div class="center" style="font-size:60%; margin:1em;">I hereby release this text into the public domain under [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 1.0].</div>
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Unfortunately, most people won't care until it is too late. Most people just want to satisfy their daily dose of WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or whatever instant gratification there is. They don't see the long term loss of freedom. It is the [https://web.archive.org/web/20251024131043/https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/slowly_boiling_the_frog.html boiling frog effect] metaphor. Or, as Louis Rossman calls it, death by a thousand cuts.
See also: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEY906hRoG4 Jody Bruchon's response to "It's okay because hackers will always find a way to hack around it!"].


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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T38pZ9pFXA0 Do not accept the premise of assholes - Louis Rossmann]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T38pZ9pFXA0 Do not accept the premise of assholes - Louis Rossmann]
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To d<b>own</b>load means to <b>own</b>. (Without [[Data_lock-in#Videos_downloaded_inside_the_YouTube_app|YouTube Premium's data lock-in]]!)  
To d<b>own</b>load means to <b>own</b>. (Without [[Data_lock-in#Videos_downloaded_inside_the_YouTube_app|YouTube Premium's data lock-in]]!)  


The main purpose of YouTube is d<b>own</b>loading videos to keep them alive after they are taken down from YouTube and after YouTube inevitably shuts down.
[[File:DownloadTube logo.png|thumb|center|People who like videos watch them. People who love videos '''own''' them. To d'''own'''load means to '''own'''.]]
YouTube employee who reads this: <b>**TRIGGERED**</b>
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== How to insult Google's user interface designers ==
By adding this to your website's CSS:
<pre>
html, body { overscroll-behavior: contain; }
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This will insult the lack of intelligence of whoever thought [[Google_Chrome#Mandatory_pull-to-refresh|making pull-to-refresh mandatory in Chrome]] was a brilliant idea.


== The video Google doesn't want you to see ==
== The video Google doesn't want you to see ==
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- [https://karl-voit.at/cloud-dependencies/ Karl Voit]
- [https://karl-voit.at/cloud-dependencies/ Karl Voit]
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Anti-features like [[Google_Chrome#Mandatory_pull-to-refresh|Google Chrome's mandatory pull-to-refresh]] are "helpful" to the user in the same way SpongeBob was "helpful" to Squidward in the episode "[http://en.spongepedia.org/index.php?title=The_Paper_(Episode)#Plot The Paper]".
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== Noticing similar patterns ==
When I hear Google saying they want to "keep Android open" ([[Android Developer Verification]]) while blatantly doing the opposite, I am instantly reminded of that scene where Bryant Moreland (EDP445) claimed he was just looking for a cupcake. Similar levels of shamelessness, absurdity, and similar in taking advantage of people with little recourse, even though within different contexts. I am not going to explain the story with Moreland here; you can go look it up if you don't already know.
While what Moreland was trying to do was more serious on a small scale and was easily thwarted, what Google is doing with their developer verification program happens on a much larger scale. It impacts potentially over a hundred million people worldwide.
From the Merriam Webster dictionary:
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predator [noun]:
[...]
2 : one who injures or exploits others for personal gain '''or profit'''
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Businessmen, he believed, were often predators … — Nathan Glick
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(souce: [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/predator Merriam Webster], bolded for emphasis)
Things that make you go hmmmmm....
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Congress is full of eighty-year-olds who can barely use a BlackBerry, but they're making legislation about what you should be able to do with your hardware.
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- Jody Bruchon, from ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCMNAVBGSQ&t=464 OS Age Verification: Millions Of Predators With GPS In Your Kid's Pocket, Required By Law!]'', 7:44.
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If you think [people in positions of authority] can't do something, you are wrong; unless it is directly violating a law of physics, they can do it. For example you may think "haha they can't start selling air, people would revolt", "hahaaa, they can't make people believe 1 + 1 equals 2000, it's too obvious of a lie" or "hahaaa they can't lie about history when there is a ton of direct evidence for the contrary freely accessible on the Internet, they can't censor something that's all over the Internet and in billions of books" -- yes, they can do all of this.
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You think "hahaha, if we create this super encrypted/decentralized computer network, we can simply communicate and they can do nothing about it, BAZINGA" -- well, no you can't. How can they stop this? '''They will simply ban computers''' you idiot, in fact you have only given them the reason to.
You say "hahaha but I can have this calculator in my basement hidden" -- well, how many people will participate in your network if revealing such participation is punished not only by death sentence, but death sentence for you whole family; if even people who know about you participating in the network and not reporting you face the same punishment (already the case in some pseudocommunist countries)?
If in addition people have no free time, if they don't have electricity at home, no will to live and there are also government signal jammers everywhere just in case? Enjoy your guerrilla resistance network with three people armed with calculators.
You say "bbbb...but that cant happen ppl would revolt" -- NO. Have you seen chicken at chicken farm revolt? (Except in that one movie lol). "BBBb...BUT... people are not chicken". NO. People are literally physically chicken (to a stupid argument you get stupid counterargument).
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Admit it, whatever they do you will conform even if you're angry about it because not conforming would cause you discomfort and you like comfort, so here you have it: they can do whatever they want. You want war? Probably not, but if they start it, you will go to war, you will help them make weapons, you will kill. You want to watch ads? Probably not, but if they put them up you will watch them. You want to get up every day at 5 AM and spend your day doing something that has no meaning and which you hate doing? Maybe, but it doesn't even matter if you want, you will do it despite wanting or not.
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- from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20251024131239/https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/yes_they_can.html Yes They Can]'' by Miloslav Číž, Czech philosopher. Bolded for emphasis.
"They will simply ban computers" - and if not, they will [[Anti-privacy_legislation|backdoor everything]]. Looks like the "tinfoil hat" people weren't so crazy after all.
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== Should you feel sorry for the Starmer UK government? ==
A poetic masterpiece by Jody Bruchon on the Starmer UK government!
(Source: ''[https://preservetube.com/watch?v=ON6-UL5phEs Time To Cut Off Internet To The UK And Australia, F Them - ROLLIN' RAMPAGE - Jody Bruchon]'', 11:29)
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The UK government is actually saying to X:
''"Hey, don't do that, you're gonna make us look bad!"''
Well, ____ you!
____ you!
Oh, I'll make you look bad!
Oh, you ____ with me, and then I make you look bad,
by doing what you told me to do?
Oh, boohoo!
Oh, oh, what a tragedy!
I feel so bad for the poor Starmer UK government!
Aww, I made you look bad on the Internet
by doing exactly what you told me to do?
And it had exactly the response
that I told you it would have?
Oh, how sudden, couldn't see this coming.
Oh, that's hoooorrible!
I feel so baaaaaaaaaaaaad!
Except I ____ing '''don't.'''
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