Famously, the way out of fascism has not been through democratic means. Fascist dictators tend to rig the democratic process to the point where it is obviously no longer democratic. The US has been seeing this since the founding of the country (electoral college, gerrymandering, voter suppression, 3/5ths compromise, lack of any federal direct ballot initiatives, mass propaganda campaigns like the Red Scare, etc.), but has only accelerated as more time has gone on, but more extreme contemporary examples would be countries like Russia, North Korea, or China.
The US also has a two party state due to the first past the post voting system that only accelerates this process faster, as the two parties are both corporate parties, and no party represents the will of the workers/lower classes.
Capitalists and fascists alike will do anything and everything in their power to both maintain and expand their power. The only exceptions are when there are mass, well-organized protests/uprisings/boycotts, but the corporations/the state also controls the media and now also the majority of the Internets' communication services when "Web 2.0" started replacing less centralized services, making mass organization much more difficult.
Don't try growing weed at your parent's house or with a 23w CFL bulb.
Oh, no. Did the guy who chose to move fast and break things end up moving fast and breaking things? Who could've seen that coming?
I'm sure his solution is going to be to move fast and break things.
It's only piracy if you distribute it, otherwise it's just format shifting.
You're missing due process and the 8th amendment.
80% chance it's actually his mom who's complaining.
Hope that this will completely kill the corporate Internet and switch to exclusively using FOSS federated or decentralized services for everything.
Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else. People also don't like to step out of their comfort zone, and not having social media is seen by some as a social taboo and as isolationary by some.
She's missing out by not joining in.
He was really impersonating a cop, then.
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Software patents in general just slow down human progress. I could say the same about the patent and copyright system in general.
Also capitalism.