The US government would likely consider such a measure as facilitating censorship," the submission said.

This is such an asinine stretch and holy moly I think this is one of the biggest admissions of big tech’s true intentions to date, not that we didn’t already know this.

The United States is so blatantly corrupt. Controlled by big tech. An algorithm off switch kills social media’s black box of manipulation and they know it.

I pray that Australia holds strong and enacts this. I cannot wait to see the data on mental health effects in those with algorithmic and non-algorithmic feeds.

I cannot wait for this. Genuinely going to add it in my calendar haha

Sorry, I did mince words when I labelled social democracy as socialism. Sometimes I find myself simplifying things because I feel like describing idealogies and systems of government can get confusing for those who aren’t too familiar with all the terminology yet.

I will check out Red Pen, thank you. I’m also still on Lemmy and all of my words still stand in case anyone else is reading.

I appreciate your recommendations.

I am consistently in favour of socialist policies, so I think calling myself a socialist is absolutely apt. Capitalism as I know it has completely beat me down. I’m sure I’m not alone in that.

Socialist countries consistently score highest on citizen happiness indexes. Their taxes are high because they are going towards policies that make measurable differences for all citizens. Why is it that those entrenched in capitalism so often dream of escape from their lives? Maybe they aren’t the problem, maybe the system is.

I am in Canada, but the organization needs to spread across borders to anybody who feels that this resonates with them.

You’re right that we need to get organized. I hear this so often and I never see anything truly being done. The alternative political parties I’ve seen have never succeeded in hooking people. We need a way to organize for the new age.

I am open to all ideas. We are the majority, we are brothers and sisters of the working class.

Please, people, I understand being a lurker online and being tired as hell. Not every day will we have the fight in us, but together we can make the fight persistent and strong. For all of us.

How should we organize online in a way that will be effective, and that won’t be censored or flooded with propaganda? I suggested Signal and SimpleX to start, but what do we all really want?

Guys, I don’t even know what to say anymore. So much of this shit isn’t worthy of being dignified as based in reality.

I’m really, really, super fucking really tired of just reading and arguing. I’m tired of years of regression being sold to us as progress that we’re just too simple to understand the realities of.

I want class solidarity with my fellow humans who feel the same way. I want to take actions that will actually change things or at least stand a chance or even just get people talking more.

Lemmy is fantastic, it’s doing what it set out to achieve, I would say. But I want to start thinking about something more, and I nor any of us can do that alone.

Perhaps a group chat? Signal or SimpleX?

One person is enough for me to start it.

Class solidarity. Power to the people. Representative government. Social safety nets. Corporate reform.

Sacré bleu, c’est magnifique!!

I’m not sure if most will know, but an open source printer is a very challenging thing to do correctly. Tons of people have been pouring their hearts and souls into this effort.

One primary issue has been practicality. Open source is only as good as the ability to actually utilize that openness in practice. This includes the being able to actually repair the device as an end user whether on your own or with assistance. This doesn’t even touch on the fact that if it doesn’t print well, it doesn’t matter how open it is because nobody will care to use it.

Obviously this is pre-release so don’t quote me on this, but I think this may just be one of the best attempts I’ve personally seen. Parts are off the shelf and reasonably priced, it can print in multiple sizes right at release, and from the videos the print quality looks very good!

I wish I could get my hands on one of these. I can’t say too much publicly, but there is a group of people who I would love to demonstrate this to and educate about. I know for a fact that even for those who don’t give a damn about open source, people do give a damn about the realities around modern-day printing.

For everyone’s sake, these need to reach the average Joe and be understood. Much of my life seems to be acting as a bridge between the OSS heavyweights and the average consumer if I think about it.

When Sony announced the end of physical disks, a low level exploit for the PS5 was released - to me the timing of this makes the message clear.

I hope we soon have some sort of similar response with Google, whatever that may be.

We are reaching a point where it’s evident we need to really start seriously developing open source alternatives for the technology in our life that is essentially gated by duopolies, monopolies, and oligopolies…

Thanks to the auther for publishing important news like this. Spreading the word is so important. Making it understandable to the average person equally so. We need to educate the youth in particular before they become irreversibly entrenched in an even worse tech corpo-dystopia.

Also, if any Grapheneos devs are reading this, I love you guys and I respect the hell outta the work you’re putting in. Anyone who has the means and the passion, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind a donation or even just feedback and engagement.