Jason2357

1. No tracking. Context based ads instead of user profiles.
2. You are responsible for the content on your pages. If you farm out to an ad network and expose users to malicious scripts, that’s on you.
3. No pop-ups/overs, animated anything. If it’s taking over control of my screen, I’m not going to tolerate it.

Just funnels the data to different people.

Gender isn’t part of biology (as a social construct) but the complexity of sex absolutely is.

Computers themselves are still pretty fixable.

You are rare and these stereotypes are mostly false. Most people in every generation can’t fix a computer. Maybe the only slight echo of truth is that during the millennial childhood and youth, at least in terms of raw numbers, home computers peaked as the main “tech” children were exposed to, so there might be a little more people who are not professionals, but have some extra comfort with them. Still, that’s a stretch.

I mean, you don’t have to guess. He’s interfered in a war and turned a social network into his personal bullhorn.

If they have electricity, than fiber is practical. For the tiny few that don’t, fine. But even then, for the billions invested in launching these satellite clusters, it just might be cheaper to build a handful of crazy long terrestrial microwave links.

You are comparing a backbone to last mile? Starlink relies on that fiber backbone too. Cutting all the last mile fiber in America would be an insanely difficult attack. Satellites are comparatively vulnerable to a great many attacks. They literally fly over the enemy.

Isn’t there an army walking the national capital, and masked goons grabbing people off the street into unmarked vans paid for with a budget /almost/ as big as Canada’s entire military?

The trouble with starlink is that the actual amazingly practical use-cases for it are not a sufficiently profitable market for it given the insane investment. So they have to convince people it’s a better idea as a rural ISP than demanding fiber.

Fourth option: Municipal fiber, but open access to those lines for private ISPs of all types.

You lack individual choice by design. You should choose whatever is best for you, obviously, but you can be pissed there’s no fiber running alongside your electricity service.