That's censorship.

Sweet little milkmaid or evil old hausfrau, though?

You mean like how Steam does with the Steam Deck?

Consoles these days are basically just PCs with limited development criteria. But a much much narrower library.

Every once in a while they change the colors of the leaves, or go to a sand planet.

Are you equating a specific companies product with an overarching technology that allows generalized connections between people across the world?

TikTok aren't even on the same scale... TikTok is part of the internet. TikTok is a very narrow usage of it. One based entirely on sucking people into addictive vapid content.

TikTok isn't in any way left leaning. It still seeks to exploit people the same as any other business, they're just better at it.

You have clearly not reached middle age if you don't know the answer to that.

You can always move. I started on Kbin.

Admittedly, having the service collapse in on itself probably helps with the migration...

Ironically I stopped drinking soda because Pepsi got rid of the only soda I really liked.

They're supporters of authoritarian dictatorships. Which is distinct from, and frankly incompatible with, the ideals of Communism.

There are definitely those who decided that communism wasn't what it was, at took the label for themselves to try and fool their constituencies into believing their dictatorships were "for the best"... but they were never ideologically communist.

Probably more of a "Soviet inspired systems aren't socialist" kinda guy.

Yeah, people keep saying "This time they'll see!" But, aside from the occasional "leopards ate my face" moment, the same people keep lining up for more of the same.

And much of the consequences are sloughed off on the people who are fighting hardest against it.

They're fucking around, and we end up finding out.