Which is why we're not gonna get it. There's reporting that AI companies are firing staff opposing using their tools to create nudes. They're not gonna ban AI from impersonating humans... like ever!

If you don't give them the right, they will eventually rise up to take it /s

Imagine organizing an anti-government movement on the platform of a guy who sponsored said government.

What are the alternatives for organizing large groups of regular (non-tech savvy) people? Carrier pigeon?

Word of mouth, independent websites, newsletters, blogs, community organizations, religious organizations, political organizations, amateur radio broadcasts/transmissions, neighborhood meetings, festivals, conferences, meetups, cultural traditions, leaflets, town criers.

Many of these (word of mouth, community organizations, religious organizations, meetups, neighborhood meetings) don't work beyond the local area.

Many of these (radio broadcast, independent websites) aren't accessible to non-technical people.

Many of these (cultural traditions, town criers) are obviously unserious.

Every single one of these has been effectively used to organize at geographic scale within this most recent century before "non-technical" even existed as a possible descriptor of a human being.

Many of them necessitate going outside, which may present an imaginative hurdle.

Imagine electicity in the home is made availiable but the deal is you can have it only if you don't use said electricity to exercise freedom of speech against the government, e.g. use a lamp to help you write the speech. And they have a way to track you if you do. And the alternative is no electrcity.

Online services like email and social media even are utilities.

Wild things can happen when you leave your house - you can actually meet and have conversations with your neighbors! Crazy, I know.

Is this meant to replace ChromeOS or will it actually be open-source for real?

Isn't this actually illegal?

It’s not “illegal broadcast which engages the FAA and FCC to hunt you down” illegal, but that doesn’t exclude other prosecutions.

Other persecutions for what? Sending crap data to an API is not a crime.

It's literally "computer fraud and abuse" in every sense of the word, so one assumes that an avenue of potential prosecution and possible conviction would be under the CFAA act. This does not, of course, guarantee that a conviction would be made and upheld at appeal, but this community is quite familiar with the dire harm that federal prosecution for misuse of computer services can impose on individuals, no matter how misguided that prosecution may be. Prosecution can be wielded as a form of persecution that does not require a conviction as outcome to be successful, and that is the a pressing risk now faced by whoever did this.

I'm keeping an eye on SteamOS. I love how it's much better at running games than Windows, the platform those games were designed for.

Plz make a Windows version :)))

Maybe?

I have friends working on IT in public administrations, starting to prepare for a switch from US tech to EU tech.

Well, a lot of countries are switching their supply chains to LATAM and Africa for this exact reason. I think the damage might have been already done

This country is turning into a meme

We have Trump blabbering about EU censorship, but here's the US oligarch's social network doing it at his orders.

The "bastion of free speech" is exporting its censorship to other countries... If I'm an EU lawmaker, I'd honestly use this to just ban Zuckerberg's entire social media sites and get it over with

I will never understand Europe's obsession with using WhatsApp. They've had a long time to switch off it for a better and less evil product.

It's not an obsession, it's network effects. I say this as someone whole mostly uses Telegram and Signal and has requested friends to text me on those apps instead of Whatsapp. But most people don't want to have several apps and to have to choose which is the correct one to contact each friend. So the status quo seems to be Whatsapp for people they only have the phone number, and Instagram for the rest.