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I just unsubscribed from The Rest is Politics and Leading. In protest at the promotion of BorgSoft Windows in their 8 Sept Leading episode about Gaza.
Windows is a proprietary OS controlled by an utterly irredeemable DataFarming corporation. Currently enabling the fascists in control of the US, who are in turn funding and arming the Likud fascists engaged in the very pogrom against Palestinians in Gaza they're (rightly) concerned about.
Shame on Campbell and Stewart taking HP's money.
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Promoting shady VPN companies was already borderline. What's next, crypto scams? Trained MOLEs? Online gambling?
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"HP's enshittificatory impulses run wild. They hunt relentlessly for ways to make things worse for their customers in order to make things better for themselves. Last week, they came up with a humdinger, even by their own standards. They announced that people who called their customer service line would be subject to mandatory 15-minute waits, even if there was a rep who was free to talk with them."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink-spattered-pitchforks/#racehorse-semen
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Just in case anyone thinks I'm being hyperbolic in unsubscribing from a podcast I've long enjoyed because they're shilling for HP ...
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"It's especially noteworthy that this took place in the UK, where Prime Minister Keir Starmer has invited tech companies to pick Britons' pockets without fear of consequence, by firing the top competition regulator and replacing him with the former head of Amazon UK."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink-spattered-pitchforks/#racehorse-semen
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Don't be fooled by the fact they've hijacked the Labour party this time instead of the Tories. Sir Stammer is just Orange Stalin with a knighthood, and although Reform obviously wouldn't be any better, I doubt they'd be substantially worse.
Stammer's regime shows that Labour hasn't substantially disenshittified since Blair dragged the party to the centre-right. Anyone in the UK wanting to fight the power needs to look to the Greens, or maybe the new left party Corbyn is involved in.
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