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<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 | 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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== How to insult Google's user interface designers ==

By adding this to your website's CSS:

<~~syntaxhighlight lang=css~~>

<pre>

html, body { overscroll-behavior: contain; }

</~~syntaxhighlight~~>

</pre>

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.

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"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)

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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+<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.
+----
+<div class="center" style="font-size:200%; letter-spacing: 0.1em; color:#777;">Footnotes</div>
+<references />
+----
+<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>
+</div>
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 File:If Google were honest - showering you with corporate buzzwords.png|Showering you with corporate buzzwords
 File:If Google were honest - disconnected.png|disconnected
+File:Android dev verif 1984.png|1984 (made by [[User:Rudxain|Rudxain]])
 </gallery>
+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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 == How to insult Google's user interface designers ==
 By adding this to your website's CSS:
-<syntaxhighlight lang=css>
+<pre>
 html, body { overscroll-behavior: contain; }
-</syntaxhighlight>
+</pre>
 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.
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 "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.
+----
+== 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)
+<!--poem tag didn't work-->
+<div style="text-align:center; font-family:'Script MT Font','times new roman',serif; white-space:pre;">
+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.'''
+</div>
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