skulblaka

Hey, give credit where it’s due.

Some people work quite hard to make sure their jargon laden flim flam has no ultimate literal meaning nor legal liability.

Tom wouldn’t be caught dead in the same hemisphere as either of these fucks

crickets

I don’t think there’s any practical way for that to happen and I expect you’d want to put tires over top of these anyway. Which will themselves be very expensive because they won’t be able to mount regular tires on them.

On the other hand every time you need to replace a wheel (one of the most easily damaged parts of your car) you’re probably shelling out a quarter of a car in cost.

Am I an influencer now?

You aren’t making any money from it, so, no.

Like it or not, people make a living doing this.

Between a choice of “you will never be arrested for anything, ever, no matter how heinous” vs “You can be arrested at any time for any reason or no reason, at the whim of your government” I cannot say with confidence which of those is worse.

That is the Fediverse. “Threadiverse” was a buzzword made up by Meta when they tried to force attach Threads to us.

Someone must still be responsible for monitoring all this, pulling the trigger on platforms that fit the criteria, and then actually enforcing that trigger pull, though. They will be, by definition, one step behind the public at all times, following them from platform to platform to tell them “you can’t be here anymore”.

People want X (variable, not ex-twitter), the government doesn’t want people to have X, so the government bans X. The people still have X. This fits into the same nutshell that the War on Drugs does and the drugs are winning that one pretty resoundingly, and you have to actually go out in public and buy those. I don’t see a reason why the War on Social Media is going to go differently especially when anyone can set up a VPN from the comfort and privacy of their living room.

This is not sustainable at all and is going to lead to a chain of banning app after platform after app as users move to the next thing and the government struggles to keep up with regulation.

I can’t say I’m surprised by American government clown show tactics at this point but this is, most definitely, clown show tactics.