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A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy (allr.cat)
submitted 1 week ago by crossdl@leminal.space to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:

The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.

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[–] crossdl@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or, if you decide you MUST use corporate social media, put it behind a secure web browser and isolate your use to only social media.

I can't be sure it works 100%. I can just hope Brave and Google have competing interests for me.

But best to stop patronizing those platforms as best you can.

What if anything do you do to try to mitigate it?

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Linux laptop, personal vpn configured using OpenVPN and the unending drive for revenge. For the lifetime that was facsimiled and stolen from me through manufactured consent.

[–] crossdl@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah, comrade!