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Well, yeah, there are political or ideological aims, which are believed to be achievable through fear. The violence itself is not meant to achieve much directly, but it spreads fear in the population that works towards some goal or another.

Violence + politics is just war.

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and vice versa.

Terrorism is violence in order to spread fear. The poor CEOs are shitting themselves right now.

Problem is, generally it’s defined as violence against civilians. I’m not sure billionaires fit that category.

I don’t think independent forums exist in the eyes of many legislators. The internet equals big tech.

If they accidentally kill off the independent web they won’t even notice. They’re probably still on X, thinking it’s still hip and unaware alternatives even exist. Never mind trying to explain them about independent forums.

This comment was brought to my attention as it was reported for being too dumb to exist.

As I’m not a moderator of this community, I’ll leave that judgment to others.

However, I will point out that the Online Safety Act was passed in 2023, towards the end of well over a decade of British politics being dominated by the Tories. Labour only won the election in 2024.

So, despite popular belief, the liberals are not the ones taking your rights away. Unless you consider Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak to be liberals, of course. Which you might, as nobody using the word “liberal” seems to have even the faintest idea what it means any more.

The Online Safety Act is not about regulating TikTok, it’s about surveillance underneath a thin veil of protecting children. And it is very much a Tory piece of work.

Sounds like you’ve had too much internet.

Either that, or you have a fascination for human suffering. Which you might want to see a therapist about if you can afford it.

In either case, signing off and doing something you enjoy offline might be a good idea. I’d take to the mountains, but that’s just me.

Amazing - I read skimmed through the Wikipedia site for Swatting and tried to search online for it happening other places, but I couldn’t watch a video while commenting so I didnt watch the source.

Fantastic case in point.

Still I struggle to understand how it’s possible.

How the fuck can Swatting be such a common thing in America. I have never heard about it in any other country.

(This is, of course, a rhetorical question. I know the answer is that American police is beyond incompetent.)

Edit: Oops, read comments below

The left didn’t get a majority, so it’s just parliamentary politics. It’s a bit unusual for France where the biggest party tends to form a government, but that’s a political norm we would have been happy to see broken had the Rassemblement national done as well as everyone expected it to.

What is more problematic is that the Cabinet is not allowed to vote in parliamentary matters, which Macron needed in order to marginalize the left. So he fired his Cabinet, so that they formally returned to parliament and could vote. The problem is, of course, that they don’t have any replacements, and their roles need to be filled. So now they’re voting in parlament while continuing their duties, giving the sleezebag Gabriel Attal the title “Outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal”, but not changing anything of substance.

It’s not constitutional, but the courts let it slide, because they’re as terrified of the French left as Hindenburg was of the Social Democrats.

Fucking Macron.

He thinks he’s a stronghold against polarization. Well, this shit is why people flee to the far right and to the far left.

And treating the French left as a huge threat is plain bullshit. There are two groups who could legitimately feel threatened by the French left - billionaires, who would have to pay taxes to fund the public sector, and the French left itself, which is too incompetent to ever cooperate and would shoot itself in the foot within weeks.

Meanwhile, Macron keeps destroying the country while promoting himself as the second coming of centrist Christ. A conservative by any other name.

I think it’s a good sign - people are on here because they like it, not just because they are free software fanatics.

If nobody here had any Meta accounts I would be more worried, as it would mean we’re completely detached from whatever normal people are up to.

I guess they would want some cybersecurity software like Crowdstrike in either case? If so, this could probably have happened on any system, as it’s a bug in third party software that crashes the computer.

Not that I know much about this, but if this leads to a push towards Linux it would be if companies already wanted to make the switch, but were unwilling because they thought they needed Crowdstrike specifically. This might lead them to consider alternative cybersecurity software.

Yeah, it runs like a charm on my T14s. No that I’ve tried much else.