toebert

I see your point and also agree with you, but at the same time it seems like you’re implying it’s a binary choice. Either we support labour or we support the right. The way I see it, they’re a centrist party now at best. I want to support a more leftist/libertarian party. I don’t have to run to vote for reform just because labour didn’t do as well as I hoped, but I also don’t need to vote for labour if they do things I hate (which the war on privacy is).

And of course the online safety act passed with a majority. They’re using the easiest manipulation tactic to describe all of these type of bills that exists. “It’s for the children”. It takes a lot to oppose it while making sure you don’t give ammunition to be smeared with “oh they hate kids/don’t care about children’s wellbeing” while defending it is as simple as repeating it’s to protect kids. Doesn’t even matter what the bill does as long as it can loosely be related it’s a guaranteed “moral high ground”.

Lastly, I don’t think it’s good to excuse bad policies by saying they also did other good things.

The prices are already going up, look at anthropic’s price hikes, or the GitHub copilot ones. You’re right it is just the start though.

It does seem like someone wants their investments back and pass on the money black hole over to the public.

I’d be surprised if they can continue their business as is after an IPO.

To be fair, the issue (or at least my point) here is not that they didn’t magically fix everything. It’s that they actively introduced things (like the online safety act) and are continuing to pursue things (like extending it to vpns) which didn’t exist before and are hostile towards online privacy.

I do agree about the general mentality being outrage based which benefits the right.

It’s actually quite interesting to look at the party manifestos in England Vs Scotland for the same parties. Reform UK has seen some success in the recent Scottish election and I believe part of it is that their “Scottish” manifesto reads closer to a regular conservative party (so only medium insane), whereas it’s batshit insane in England. I don’t think a lot of people compare those, despite it being the same party.

Joke’s on you, in the UK we have a “left wing” government and they’re doing the best they can to fight against privacy!

Oh wait… I guess the joke’s on us nvm.

Anybody can vibe code, same as anybody can build a house - it’s just that both of those will fall apart pretty quickly if you don’t know what you’re doing.