The fact that it took me the comments sections to understand this is satire speaks a lot about the current status of where things are going.

EDIT: Reading it again its quite obvious, I was just skimming at first, but still damn. Hilarious

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Aachen an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I didn't see it was satire (having only skimmed the site) until scrolling through the comments and seeing this fake review being quoted. That's when I went "surely not", checked the site, saw it was really there, and was quite relieved this is not yet an actual thing!

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comboy 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Under this name or not I think it's happening regardless..

	▲	overfeed 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As any etymology/Latin nerd will tell you, "this name" (MalusCorp) literally translates to EvilCorp, everything about the site is over the top satire. I know Poe's law and all that, but I'm looking askew at commenters in this thread who fail to realize it as either only reading the headline, or are AI-controlled. Satire points out the absurd

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frenchie4111 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

lol - it's literally called malus but I guess that's only an obvious giveaway in retrospect

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hmry 14 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's perfectly realistic.

E.g. Palantir, the surveillance analytics company named after the magic orb that purports to let you remotely view anything you want, but actually allows its creator to view you while manipulating you into doing whatever its creator wants by selectively showing you some things and not others.

	▲	JoshTriplett a few seconds ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In fairness to the original mythos that that particular family of awful companies has misused: the palantiri were in fact designed purely for far-seeing, and Sauron wasn't the creator of them, he just got his hands on one and corrupted it into a tool for manipulation.
	▲	whacko_quacko a minute ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Especially given that a popular open source project recently tried to do exactly that. https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327 I really got fooled here for a second, but the unfortunate reality is that people will try this soon, and someone will have to litigate this, if open source is to survive, which will take years and millions of dollars to resolve