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Us peasants cannot stop this, Canada will roll this out soon also, its being rammed through no matter what people feel.
by soupbowl 3mo ago
Us peasants cannot stop this, Canada will roll this out soon also, its being rammed through no matter what people feel.
- tlb 3mo agoIn terms of political power, programmers are more like yeomen than peasants. Yeomen have power due to their essential skills because if a good fraction of them stopped working the system would collapse. (Whereas if peasants stop working, they just starve.) If a sufficient number of programmers said "We're not going to implement or support privacy-invading systems" the government would have to back down.
- phs318u 3mo agoSadly, your faith is entirely quixotic. Like all other segments of society, there’s always a cohort willing to do anything - regardless of ethics, legality or morality. They are entirely nihilistic, not giving a shit about anything or anyone. And it only takes a small number of such people to do great harm.