Politics is killing the internet

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When Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau invented the World Wide Web, they hoped the internet remained free and not swayed by powerful forces for their personal agendas. Nowadays, i definitely say their hopes vanished. Yesterday i came across a Microsoft senior director's Twitter account and i was sad but not surprised. I don't accept compromises: politicians must be prohibited to join such sensitive positions, 100% they will exploit. While they distract you with bots and trolls, they fabricate some shit.
Facebook for example handed over the keys of fact-checking to couch truthers and its reputation sank. Microsoft has announced a $1billion in the polish cloud business and $1,5billion in the italian cloud business. In, say, Russia, people is used to millions fractioned in many years. Business speaking it's conflictual since, according to the Bibl- ehm sorry, the Ease Of Doing Business ranking, Russia is 28th while Poland is 40th and Italy 58th. Russians are synonym of computer science, why ignoring such talent? Otherwise it would empower them for more "malign activities". I can understand sanctions on weapons but it's intolerable that tech giants refuse to grant basic services.
The European Union passed a law, Articole 13 of GDPR, tightening fair use and expand legal liability for websites (many are still trying to figure out how to comply) officially for privacy protection. Dissatisfaction in the process erupted under the hashtag #SaveOurInternet. Remember when the USA bullied Sweden in shutting down The Pirate Bay? Here it is a sad example of copyright abuse. Kickass is fine tho. "Civilized people neither desire nor tolerate piracy", a comment in Naked Security's report says. I strongly disagree.
The controversy of the last few days is about The Last Of Us 2. Neil Druckmann has gone full political. Nothing shocking, right? Try the Call Of Duty Modern Warfare's Urzikstan move and 146.000.000 people will hate you.
Yeah, reporters. The first one was Jason Schreier, the king of leaks that apparently is confortable with when they're given to them so he can brag with his employer. And if you point this to him, he will block you. He's quitting Kotaku for Bloomberg i mean, it makes him a careerist. What a weasel. If the game is good, it will be regardless the orientation. What i search in a game is funnyness, original gameplay and glitchless coding. Naughty Dog delivers it? It's a buy. The muscular woman is a fairytale fantasy? You never watched Crossfit.
Yeah, copyright strikes. Channels en masse have been taken down becuase they dared to speak (only speak, without explicit graphic references on screen of the leaked gameplay) about the leaks. Imagine a channel spending its last 3 weeks bringing only TLOU2; it's cynicism at maximum level. Imagine channels en masse disliking Naughty Dog's trailer just because of the diversity; it's pointless lashing out. We can argue that what Sony/Naughty Dog is doing is copyright strike abuse and Youtube must intervene for the sake of its own platform accessibility. But tech giants and the system go hand in hand so we shouldn't expect substantial changes.

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