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Apple's MacOS Shows Us the Vision of Computing That GAFAM Has for Us (Digital Prisons)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 04, 2024,
updated Nov 04, 2024

The White House

Freedom means "we the people" should be in control, not people being controlled by corporations (contemporary slaveowners)

Earlier on we mentioned the closing of the Apple 'ecosystem' (even further than before). More devices or computers will be impacted. One cannot opt out of these restrictions. This is attracting the wrath of everyone as it's a form of DRM. It's not classic DRM, nor is this TiVoisation, but the underlying concepts are related and interconnected. Apple won't let users run "unsigned" software? Well, "unsigned" by who? Next up: "unsigned" Web sites, i.e. not registered in the Pentagon-connected CA cartel? Or signed by the cartel... with the certificate not revoked... just YET? But of course it's all about security... the security of the wealth of Tim Crook, the security of the reputation of Epstein's clients and friends (Bill Gates, Donald Trump etc.), the security of the US military and so on. What else? What about the security of actual computer users? Does this count for anything? See, Apple values your security... and the NSA's. The latter comes first though. It's like a lot of "modern" tech 'evolved' in preparation for a World War and a major shift in global power. So as to better control the 'plebs' or 'populace' at times of greater societal stress, preventing riots, uprising etc.

Your account (platform and audience outsourced to social control media) is BANNED... reasons unspecified...

Your site is BLOCKED (or inaccessible)... explanation not required...

NO, YOU CANNOT RUN THIS SOFTWARE!!!! The Linux Foundation is already working towards this.

The iPhone 12 mini. Credit: Samuel Axon

DO NOT EVEN THINK of booting this OS!!!! Also, stop using older PCs. Buy a new one with all the latest restrictions.

Good digital shackles come with a low price tag because the aim is to distribute as many shackles as possible. Right, Alexa (subsidised social control telescreens with microphone added on top)? The Wall Street Journal, or MSM owned by a billionaire, says that Amazon lost over $25 billion on Alexa devices between 2017 and 2021. As a reminder, Amazon's total debt right now is about 160,000,000,000 dollars. It grew by about a billion dollars this past quarter in spite of the mass layoffs. Pocket money... slush funds? Whose money? Where did this money come from? Who's gonna pay for it?

GAFAM's market offerings, including Android, gravitate towards what Apple is doing. Let's not go there.

"The M1 CPU made by Apple was boasting a move towards baked-in DRM," an associate pointed out. "There have been no subsequent announcements rejecting that, so one can only presume that the M2, M3, and M4 have progressively tighter DRM constraints."

Again we wish to stress that Android (the "G" in GAFAM, if not "A" because... Alphabet) is mimicking what Apple does, it's usually just a few years 'behind' (on negative 'features', also known as "antifeatures")

As the associate put it: "How much is ChromeOS in violation of various licenses?"

They're taking GNU/Linux along in the same trajectory (but with different brands or trademarks).

Want GNU/Linux? "Use Crostini", they say. Sure, Google will spy on everything you do. Enjoy pseudo-freedom.

Will GPL compliance be in the cards? Maybe not. The Google-backed organisations continues working towards decapitation of the FSF, a principal guardian of copyleft licensing.

"It is in their economic interest to comply with the licenses," the associate said. But the managers at Alphabet (or Alphabet Agency as we something call it) cannot understand this. They hoard money and power. Copyleft goes against that, by design. The associate noted that "copyleft supports money, in the long term, but quarterly or monthly reports are unlikely to reveal that."

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