06.23.21
Gemini version available ♊︎First I Came
Why Did Amazon Web Services Shut Down WikiLeaks? Because Amazon doesn’t care about Wikileaks, and moreover it does not wish to help expose the crimes of the rich
Summary: Time after time people will be reminded — or learn the hard way — that self reliance and avoidance of disappointment typically requires self-hosting, proper standards, free software, and simplicity, not outsourcing, large frameworks, and other kinds of unnecessary complexity
First I came to ActiveX
But Microsoft lost the Web wars, so my Web site stopped working
Then I came to Flash
But it was a security dumpster fire and total catastrophe, so it’s abandonware now
Then I came to AMP
But it didn’t accomplish anything useful, except spying by Google
Then I came to ClownFlare
But my Web site became unavailable at times, due to their systems, not mine
Then I came to Twitter
But my account got banned, for mentioning where Elvis Presley died
Then I created a YouTube channel
But it turned out my subscribers could no longer see my videos
Then I joined a large IRC network
But my channel was taken over by its true masters
Then I hosted on Amazon
But it turned out I was just a transient tenant to them
Then I created a GitHub account
But it turned out that Microsoft could take it down without notice or due process
Then I joined Google+
But I didn’t know I’d soon lose all my “friends”
Then I joined the Fediverse
But it only worked OK until the site shut down
Then I got a Chromebook
But everything I bought it for became unavailable after 24 months of system updates
Then I bought some music
But it stopped working when they shut down the DRM servers
Then I wrote in Blogspot
But the interface suddenly changed, without first consulting me
Then I donated to the Open Source Initiative
But later I realised they were sending my money to Microsoft
Then I bought a fitness tracker
But instead of improving my health it sold my data
Then I decided to read e-books
But Bezos decided to remotely delete some of them
Then I bought a printer to print my e-books
But HP remotely controlled my printer to curtail ‘unauthorised’ ink
Then I downloaded Chrome
But it turned out Chrome was downloading and uploading my data
Then I bought a car
But later it turned out it came with listening devices I was unable to remove or disconnect
And then I bought a smartphone
But it turned out the only intelligent thing about it is the intelligence agencies
Then I downloaded GNU/Linux
But my ISP sent me threats for that █
ᶃ Gemini Space
This post is also available in 
Content is available under CC-BY-SA