▲ | hilbert42 a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"How can you hold a manufacturer liable if the user was given unsupervised time as root?" PCs had root access by default, so why wasn't it a significant problem for them? Banking is possible on a PC without a banking app. As Noam Chomsky has said, as in politics, manufacturers and OS vendors such as Google and Microsoft have been deliberately "manufacturing concent" — a widespread belief in the population of users that benefits them to the disadvantage of many of said users. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | burnt-resistor a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufactured consent requires media complicity to achieve acceptance of Hobson's choice Accept or Don't Use EULAs and corporate, technofeudal non-ownership and the "shame" of specialized knowledge, tinkering, and modifying things. Nerds were frowned upon until electronics and software people became billionaires in the 80's, and technical vocations are still frowned upon in socially most of America. PS: While he maybe in effectively hospice now, at least he outlived Kissinger. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | JumpCrisscross a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> PCs had root access by default, so why wasn't it a significant problem for them? They weren't networked. They were notoriously buggy. And most importantly, they weren't warrantied [1]. Root should always be an option. But once you root, it's fair for the warranty to be voided. > OS vendors such as Google and Microsoft have been deliberately "manufacturing concent" Nitpick, the propaganda model [2] attempts to describe traditional mass media. Two of its five pillars (ownership and sourcing) fall apart in a world with smartphones and social media. [1] https://www.studocu.com/ph/document/university-of-rizal-syst... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model#Criticism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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