And the U.S. completely lost any interest in regulating companies or breaking up monopolies, seeing how the representatives are constantly bankrolled or looking to be bankrolled by those very monopolies.

What was all the hub-bub years ago about proxies? Didn’t they do what VPNs do today? How are they different?

Maybe they’re not words to live by – if you’re a coward.

“Yes, children. Incredibly so. But greed let them melt the caps, extinguish entire species, and create a limit to the amount of potable water. With stupidity that extraordinary to debate over, what’s a little copyright issue to the voters of that century?”

Reddit will survive. Boycotts don’t work anymore because people can never organize enough to beat out the massive reach of entrenched monopolies anymore.

Facebook’s far worse than either of them, but as far as the Most Hated title goes, it will be fun (and grim) to see who wins that race. Although, I feel like Spez is simply selling out, and Elon is truly, more overtly, an evil fuckwit; who will keep screwing his platform out of spite far longer than Spez his out of Greed. Spez played one of the last cards he could, I think.