When Chrome came out, a lot of us knew that letting DoubleClick have any control over access to the Internet was a bad idea. This is another part of that.
How about they just... not include the LLM bullshit in the first place? Just make a browser that strictly renders text and images according to W3C standards?
Any form of prostitution will inevitably end up putting vulnerable people at risk. To make it legal just makes it so that the abuse has a higher evidence requirement to see justice done. Keeping it illegal means it's an action of last resort - ensuring that only the most vulnerable people get caught in it.
We need active enforcement against it. We need to make sure that no one is in a situation where they believe their only value is their body in the crudest way.
Absolutely not. Kids should be kept away from social media as it exists now. Frankly, kids need to be supervised on the Internet as a whole, because there's so much dangerous shit out there to hurt them.
That's the secondary goal. I feel like there's enough 3rd party tools to fix that, that I want the repairs done in the backend and trust power users and user-devs to handle the UX.
Okay, that's easy: remove all the LLM slop. That'll start fixing it. Then get the ads out of the UI. Get rid of the MS account requirement, and make all updates optional. For a stretch goal, go back to making an OS that only does what the user tells it to, and doesn't have any function to phone home without direct user input.
I don't have a problem with them selling ads. I have a problem with the insidious tracking that has become a part of those ads. Mojeek sells ads but doesn't track you everywhere. Also, there's SearX instances, which typically don't sell ads or data.
They also don't use LLMs. If you think Kagi isn't giving away or selling your data, think again, because the LLM is doing it as a core function.
And your suggestion is instead... what? Exactly what the worst of them want to do to others? And you'll tar the people who aren't 100% evil bastards with the same brush?
No. Forgiveness, support, and education are the only way forward. It's not about what we did when we 'reintegrated'. It's about the fact that when we did, we still denied them federal funds, no one set out to build industries or safe jobs for the average people, and no one made any effort toward education in the south. And, might I add, no one actually gave a damn about the racial tensions, except in those rare cases where they were affected. Instead of trusting that churches will handle it, acknowledge that they'll turn into cults - look at how many literal cult groups there are in the southern USA when they were the only community support or education. Instead of saying "eh, you'll figure it out", realize that no, the average people will not. They'll continue to be screwed over like they've always been.
Educate. Integrate. Yes, demand better of them, but give them the tools to become better.
The American Empire is in a weak state right now because of who's in charge. We have only two ways of getting it back - an incredibly massive investment into global soft power, or a disturbing investment into forcing our hard power. Since that's the problem we face, we're even more in need of each other. We need to integrate for real, to acknowledge, defuse, and support. Because I'll tell you something. I live in NJ. I love cities, and I get unnerved outside of a city on the scale of NY/NJ. My needs and my lifestyle are totally different from those of a person in a rural community. But we need leaders who want to support both - and not people who want to hurt either fellow Americans or foreign people.
I use it occasionally. The problem is, most of my communities are on Discord. Plus, rooms not being permanent on the server means that bots have to be hosted by someone, plus there's a severe lack of effective logging.
Basically, all the problems that later chat programs solve, I keep missing on IRC. I want persistent rooms. I want federation & bridging between servers. I need trustworthy remote logs. Since I know a lot of that has been handled client-side, I don't understand why it can't be implemented server-side with IRCv4 or whatever is next.
When Chrome came out, a lot of us knew that letting DoubleClick have any control over access to the Internet was a bad idea. This is another part of that.