#sinthoughts
There is a saying: If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.
Under capitalism, almost nothing is truly free, even if it may not lighten your wallet directly.
A free social media platform sells your personalized data to advertisers. Web galleries offer your work for training pattern recognition neural networks. Some free services may require you to pay for the device you need to use them.
Free to play games try to psychologically manipulate those that cannot manage their spending impulses. Free trials give you a taste of the full product and make it hard to drop after it integrates into your habits.
Is this manipulative? Absolutely. Is it illegal? Not at all. Most terms of service obfuscate the details of these practices with vague wording. "Your data will be used to improve our service" can mean many things.
You know what, I'll call into Radio Graffiti & tell Ghost publicly to join the Fediverse in front of everyone listening so that way, there will have more people to get on his ass about it.
What should I bring up on reasons for him to join though, that would help persuade him to join? I think that him having an additional place to stream will be a good point. Anything you would want me to say?
###. You were supposed to learn about the filtered version of the history, not the real one, not about the real bad guys not that Soviet army sacrificed 27 millions to defeat the Nazis for the US and UK to take credit for it.
When you prevent the children to learn the real history, when you prevent them from critical thinking, when you teach them that 6 million Jews were much much much more important than 27 million Soviets.
When you don't let them know that NATO was built by the former Nazis and so did the CIA and MIT not to forget almost all the financial institutions that built the western capitalism.
They have been supporting fascists and monsters all throughout history, the only different is that it's no longer just a few of us who are pointing it out but millions seeing it uncensored and live.
Suharto, Pinochet, Ferdinand Marcos, Ziaolhaqh, Somoza and sooo many other monsters with backing and support of the western leaders were all we saw, we fought and exposed. But the kids today starting to see the real news. From alternative media, from social networks. From eyewitness reports to understand the lies and propaganda of the west, the main stream media and sold out politicians.
I sure hope that this is the wake up call the world needs to end the 80 years of lies we have been fed to.
But I'm not that optimistic. And hope so badly that I'm wrong.