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What annoys you? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 9 months ago by phoneymouse to c/asklemmy

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Megacorps, regular corporations and just people with influence unilaterally deciding what people do and do not want, and what they can and cannot do.

For example:

The push for AI in everything, without the option to turn it off.
Also assuming that clearly I'm cool with contributing to the datasets used to train these AIs without compensation.
Constant changing and redesigns of UIs/UX to "modernise them".
Not allowing people to customise or tweak things, or use custom clients.
Deciding that clearly I'm cool with them violating my privacy and tracking me.
Unilaterally changing contracts because you've decided you need more money (which sounds super illegal yet has happened twice over the last year).
Mastercard, Visa and AMEX's anti-horny policies.
Likewise, governments banning or restricting porn to "protect people".
Deciding that sharing photographs of IDs is at all am appropriate way to verify age.
Games requiring rootkit and Linux incompatible anticheat and that's somehow preferred over server side anticheat.
Likewise, games that don't let you set up custom servers.
People deciding that streaming music and tv for a monthly fee is somehow better than owning it.
Companies that guard their IP so tightly that they stifle creative expression.
Homophobia, transphobia and all the other discrimination stuff.
Furry hate (which is just homophobia btw).
People in many democracies not being willing to try things that aren't first past the post.
That the only way to run an economy is to have people at the bottom live in poverty and suffer.
The fact that a conversian therapy is still used to "treat" autism in many places.
And the fact that people are trying to "cure" autism by genetic screening (eugenics).
And in general that people have the right to decide what a marginalised group wants or needs, even without being a member of that group.

And a special fuck you to the people who hear these comments and respond with "well, they have the right to run business/raise their children how they want". As if monopolies have no social responsibilities... Or to instantly disbelieve anything I say because they have an overly optimistic world view...

... Sorry for the rant. Been having a bit of the ol' depression over all this and saw an excuse to just get things off my chest.

[–] brygphilomena 4 points 9 months ago

Specifically towards business can run how they want. It's such bullshit! We can create regulations, we NEED to create regulations.

We need to use the power of the government to protect the people from greedy corporations.