Why everyone is so okay with wearing a tracking device? Usually there is a crowd who will bring NSA in every possible discussion, but apparently not for this worldwide functioning meter-precise tracking service?
It also happened with doorbell cameras. If you'd have asked people ten years ago if it seemed reasonable for nearly every home to have an Internet-connected camera on the front facing the street (and neighbors' houses), I think you'd get pretty universally negative responses. Yet here we are.
I call it the 2N; novelty and naïveté. People like the different new things that let them do things they’ve never done before, and they also don’t want to think about the long term effects or consequences of their actions.
It comes into play in many human behaviors like objectively horrible choices in romantic partnerships, drug use and reckless behavior and actions in general, most forms of fraud where promises are made and/or imagination is spurred, as well as various forms of political decisions in democracies where people support or believe lying liars in order to win the “fell for it again” award.
There seems to be something inherently and deeply prone to clearly self-harming behavior in many if not all humans. Willingly simply adopting and excusing mass surveillance tracking devices where people would have resisted being injected with a tracker otherwise, is probably a good example of that. “No no” says one rat to his buddy “it’s just a box where all the sudden little lumps of peanut butter started appearing two nights ago. I’m sure it will just be free peanut butter forever and there are no other reasons why that peanut butter could be appearing there. It would definitely never be in order to condition us to feel comfortable with entering the box and spreading the message that this is where you get the free peanut butter!”
So we have some closed-source systems(iPhones, AirTags, samsung analogs, etc) which enable owner(best case it is Apple "allowed" by you) to use established global "opt-out" tracking network?
>I honestly don't understand what people are trying to say when they use it
Like, banana-flavoured milk product vs banana yogurt - seed oil and potato starch compound with artificial flavorings vs REAL milk yoghurt with REAL banana.
It tastes different, it has different nutritional value and overall "chemical" product feels scammy because it tries to mimic proper one.
This is all about words, like, why do we use "Artificial" in Artificial Intelligence?
What is real banana? How much processing is allowed for it to be still real? Considering the selective breeding of banana, is banana even still real?
Chemical is just a bad word choice. Artificial, or ultra processed get closer to the issue. They still are vague with a lot of grey area. If you cook at home, you're also highly processing your food. The fruit in winter is likely also artificial, in some sense: Grown against the will of god/nature with pesticides, in a tent, in a climate that doesn't naturally feature them, devoid of flavour because they were artificially bred for yield, color and size, etc.
>What is real banana? How much processing is allowed for it to be still real? Considering the selective breeding of banana, is banana even still real?
This is arbitrary subjective qualifier, goes somewhere between "isoamyl acetate" flavoring chemical and organic wild forest bananas. I would subjectively say that any grown bananas is REAL while isoamyl acetate made by rectification of amyl acetate is not REAL banana.
UK citizens already lost legislative war, now government has a valid enforcing reason for IP blocks, DPI, etc.
Just a recap how it happened in Russia:
1. First, year ~2015 legal framework was created under disguise of banning pirated media(specifically torrents.ru)(legislative push). State-wide DNS ban introduced. Very easy to circumvent via quering 8.8.8.8
2. Then, having legal basis, govt included extra stuff in banned list(casinos, terrorist orgs, etc)(executive push). IP bans introduced, applied very carefully.
3. Legal expanded allowing govt to ban specific media on very vague criterias(legislative push). IP blocks tried on some large websites. DPI hardware mandated to be installed by ISPs to filter by HTTPS SNI(executive push).
4. At ~2019 Roskomnadzor(RKN) created, special govt entity which enforces bans without court orders(legislative push).
5. ~2021 sites become banned if they are not filtering content by Russian laws by request of RKN(executive push). VPN services were obligated to also DPI-filter traffic(legislative push).
6. ~2023 Crackdown on VPN started(executive push). Popular commercial services were IP-banned, OpenVPN and IPSec connections selectively degraded by DPI.
7. ~2025 Heavy VPN filtering(vless, wireguard, etc) introduced(executive push). Performance of certain sites were degraded(youtube, twitter, etc).
Makes me giggle as Russian citizen since very similar rhetoric was used when establishing internet censorship in RU - let's protect our citizens from evil foreign entities from the internet.
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