Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects

• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think it’s the other way around. See, hosting a service on the Internet carries some obligations.

  The state treats them so that those are much easier to fulfill for these platforms.

  The state gives them very expensive projects.

  The state kills Aaron Schwartz, purely coincidentally also the author of the RSS standard. That thing that comes the closest to a uniform way of aggregating the Web, which would kill a lot of what platforms provide.

  The state makes some of their products standard for the state, making those commercial things necessary to interact with the state.

  So, the state does a lot to give them that monopoly in the first place.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yes that’s precisely what i implied, because they control it in the first place. companies like amazon are more powerful than nation states, and they exercise that power.

      And I’m trying to say that the state helping them was first.

      this has been the capitalist state’s modus operandi for more than 100-200 years. and the oligarch’s power precede it, they shaped it that way back then.

      Not really. Every month, year, decade is different.

      aaron schwartz was literally just a dude, not remotely comparable to oligarchs.

      He had the right ideas of how to solve one particular industry which is the spearhead of barbarism. And he somehow committed suicide in jail.

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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