why would they want to anger their global surveillance channels?

feel unwelcome.

This is the basis of systematic oppression in US.

• Freedom of speech to treat minority like shit who will likely be lynched if they speak up in the past. Now when minorities do speak up, and can't be silenced with "traditional means", it's woke.
• Guns to deter minorities who can't afford to. Now minorities can own guns, use police as cartels to kill them with impunity and be promoted.
• Taxes for poor people, and cuts for the rich.
• Two justice systems based on class
• Separation of religion and government, but only for non-christian beliefs
• Portrays itself as science leader, does not really give a fuck about climate change.
• Portrays itself as defenders of democracy, has a well documented history of destroying democracies around the world.
• Supports genocide when it's favorable to them.

They know how to oppress by seeming altruistic with false sense of progress, that only benefit itself, the racists and the rich.

Do they publish any of the data from these surveys or use it as an excuse to remove more useful features?

"We listen to our community, so now we're removing about: config access from stable desktop builds to match the mobile version to provide uniform builds, making problems easier to replicate and also provide better security for all. Please use beta or nightly builds for tinkering."

I have kids and I don't hate not losing caps.

Didn't you know? it's good when US bans/sanctions foreign companies, when other countries does it, it's AUTHORITARIAN. And companies in US are totally not in bed with the government.

Everyone else must run spyware "Made in the USA" or else you're causing some irreparable harm of sorts.

Don't some games in steam run Anticheat as rootkits? That's totally okay, because it's from the great USA.

Totally not an attack vector. I swear.

FREEEEEDOM.

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• US helps create monopolies
• Buys data off those monopolies for surveillance
• Pretend-fines pocket change for those monopolies
• Make it seem like a big deal in media
• The dumb populace believe the BS and point to it as some sort of win.
• Rinse and Repeat

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The founding fathers were the rich that wanted all of the riches of the new found land for themselves and their rich friends.

So far, it's going exactly as planned.

US: It's totally fine cuz we're spying on users all over the whole world. hihihi

Tiktok does it

US: That's not fair

secret documents reveal shit its companies has done for more than a decade with impunity

US: actshockedpikachuface.jpg

Better give inkscape more practice.

lol at the "no plan to change at the moment" crap. that ship has already sailed.

For a customer who wants the best phone for their money, the Fairphone is objectively worse

Objectivity worse in performance, sure. Some people consider more things than just being a fastest bang for the buck. Unethical mining, forced labour, e-waste, data mining, and lots of other things. If you care at all, that is.

If you want to compare that to a product made by a billion dollar company, no one is stopping anyone. There is cost associated with doing things ethically. Small companies aren't financed to eat those costs to gain the market. It speaks more about principles than anything else.

I don't disagree with Linus' suggestion at the end: even the fairest phone is environmentally costlier than rescuing an old second hand phone

is it? The person who sold the phone is most definitely going to buy a new phone and if they sold the phone released last year they will most likely do so every year. The reason there's a second hand market with a year old phones is because people obsessively buy new phones. How exactly is that environmentally friendly than starting to use a phone made by a company with higher ethics? Surely the later stacks higher in being environmentally and morally friendly?

Duchebag is spouting capitalists "trickle down" economics. Rather than fix the cause, find the flex tape to hide it. Rich people buy new phones, less rich buy phones from the rich, and so on. No one needs to look past the marketing into ethics in how they were made and companies keep profiting in billions by exploitation of the poor. So so environmentally friendly.