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New comment by SidewaysView in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

SidewaysView — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:42:52 +0000

You think another dead white man quoting King is anything the world hasn't heard before? What rock have you been hiding under these last fifteen years? Dorks and losers all you tech bros.

New comment by SidewaysView in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

SidewaysView — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:39:25 +0000

Slavery is practiced today in this country. Every generation is born in whiteness and will never be free of the stain. Fuck your "freeze peach." Fuck what you think you're due. Sit! Back! DOWN!

New comment by SidewaysView in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

SidewaysView — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:19:42 +0000

The promise of slavers and slavery? The promise of whiteness and empire? The propaganda of the dying and dead so-called enlightenment?

What other promises have you ever had? What did you think justice meant? You losers talking of WW2 and Rome. Now sit back down.

New comment by SidewaysView in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

SidewaysView — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:09:53 +0000

The constitution is a piece of paper written by dead white men.

Principles have never been about that. The world has never been about that. It's never been something anyone who wasn't "that kind of nerd" could believe in. Not even up for debate.

New comment by SidewaysView in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

SidewaysView — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:30:24 +0000

Online is terrible for kids. Online is terrible for adults! Too many people don't have the agency or social skills to manage themselves. Conspiracy theories, anarchists and libertarians, misinformation and disinformation, weirdos and beardos and creeps of all description. People end up believing all kinds of things that just aren't real.

It'll be best for society if things are a little more regulated, a little safer. And I'm happy to help where I can. Listening to the terminally online about it would be counterproductive.

New comment by SidewaysView in "The circus freaks of open source"

SidewaysView — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:49:08 +0000

> Mental health issues and the ensuing harassment, shame, and stigma disproportionately affects neurodivergent and queer people [...] Crises happen to “problematic” people, too [...] I often see that people who I otherwise respect and recognize as allies and kindred spirits are participating in these rituals of humiliation, harassment, and voyeurism.

Little late for that, beardy. Much too late.

"How many neckbeards can we kill today?"

New comment by SidewaysView in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

SidewaysView — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:53:04 +0000

Honestly, I'm kind of glad this is happening. Online is a bottomless well of libertarians and anarchists and Blueskiers and QAnons. It was always a neckbeard paradise.

It's not just kids it's bad for. Too many people don't have the agency or social/emotional insight to take care of themselves.

New comment by SidewaysView in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

SidewaysView — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:07:44 +0000

"AI by default" is going to be really funny once it spreads everywhere creative. Panic begets panic...