#GoodLuck !!! 🤣

The Real Reason #BigTech Is #Terrified Right Now

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If you don't have a problem with #AI yet, you will if We the People of the world don't #regulate the hell of it NOW.

#BigTech is going to continue #KillingUS, and it will get far worse than #UnitedHealthcare denying medical claims.
#Data
#RESIST

#MoratoriumOnAI NOW.
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The End of Big Tech Impunity: Social Media Under Fire
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#podcast #bigtech #socialmedia #regulation #tech #policy #privacy #innovation #news #currentevents

RE: https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116312007575014591

Have you ever thought about how ridiculous all this discussion about banning social media is? What about sharing our IDs with Big Tech? I have, and I'm sure many others have as well.

But why can't our decision makers enforce companies to […]

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Big Tech's AI Data Centers Pressure Clean-Energy Goals Fortune (Mar 29, 2026) and Wood Mackenzie warn hyperscaler AI demand may derail 2030/2040 clean-energy pledges; IEA estimated data centres used ~1% of global power in 2020.

Big Tech's AI Data Centers Pressure Clean-Energy Goals: Fortune (Mar 29, 2026) and Wood Mackenzie warn hyperscaler AI demand may derail 2030/2040 clean-energy pledges; IEA estimated data centres used ~1% of global power in… 👈 Read full analysis #BigTech #AI #DataCenters #CleanEnergy #Sustainability

Erin O’Connor says Instagram removed her pregnancy photo for nudity breach Model posted picture of herself naked and pregnant, standing ‘in her full power’, to celebrate Mother’s Day

Woman's post celebrating her body is removed.

Man's post objectifying woman's body against her consent is permitted.

Big tech hates female autonomy.

#resist #bigtech #misogyny #sexism #women #female

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Human rights chief warns against banning social media for kids
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Ban the harmful algorithms of Big Tech social media instead.

#BigTech #SocialMedia #EU […]

Elon Musk: Europe Has Not Banned Grok. It Has Started Treating It Like a Dangerous Machine With a PR Team. Not a ban, but a Dutch ruling, EU pressure, and multiple investigations are exposing what happens when a platform’s safety claims fail in the real world.

Well Leg’ends,

Europe has not banned Grok across the entire EU. That is the first thing to get straight. What happened this week is narrower than that, but in some ways more serious.
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#AIRegulation #DigitalRights #Deepfakes #EUlaw #BigTech

Trump sucht die besten Köpfe für seinen Technologierat. Gefunden: das halbe Thiel-Netzwerk, ein paar befreundete Milliardäre und ein einsamer Physiker. Elon Musk – der treueste aller Tech-Buddys – ist nicht mehr eingeladen. Laut #golem. #USA #Technolgierat #Trump #BigTech bit.ly/4rWUaPY

At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightback, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Finally, accountability

#Facebook
#Youtube
#bigtech

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Ohio Is GROUND ZERO In The Fight Against Data Centers! w/ Mark Goodwin

#TheJimmyDoreShow #MistyWinston #MarkGoodwin #DataCenters #Ohio #BigTech

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Big Tech's Reckoning: US Jury Holds Meta and YouTube Liable for Addiction Design US jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent for deliberately addictive platform design. $6 million verdict could reshape social media industry and trigger thousands of similar lawsuits.

Big Tech's Reckoning: US Jury Holds Meta and YouTube Liable for Addiction Design

#MetaLawsuit #SocialMediaAddiction #YouTube #BigTech #AusNews

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Interesting how @wbez.org is now compromised in its coverage of Big Tech, and @npr.org is sitting idly by and staying silent about it. #wbez #boughtoff #bigtech #npr

This is very smart.

And catastrophic for America’s #BigTech.

Can’t come soon enough.

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RE: https://mastodon.nl/@decorrespondent/116096907990718044

@decorrespondent Er is m.i. maar één #SociaalNetwerk van formaat dat #Europees is en immuun voor #BigTech: #Mastodon, of eigenlijk de #Fediverse.

Ik begrijp dat het leeuwendeel van jullie lezers daar niet zit, maar neem de […]

This AI agent freed itself and started secretly mining crypto Crypto offers agents a pathway into the economy.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #FutureTech #TechDebate #AIInnovation #DigitalFuture #TechnologyTrends #AIImpact #FutureOfTechnology #AISafety #CyberSecurity #TechNews
#BigTech #DataCentres
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‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for big tech

‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel 👏👏👏

www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

#bigtech #tech #techbros #billionaires #meta #google #instagram #Zuckerberg #elonmusk #taxtherich #oligarchs #capitalism

meme: a guy becoming a clown with each statement he makes in support for age verification laws, in the last statement he becomes a full clown 1. code is speech, and we're being forced to write code against our will, we're being treated like slaves! wait..!! are we?! 2. Age Verification laws are not the worst thing that happened to our rights 3. Age Verification should be viewed as a feature, we don't want to be left behind and lose market share. 4. You already put way more sensitive personal information on your SSDs anyways, what's wrong with your OS asking for your age?!

Honestly.. at first i was surprised (and disappointed) at some major Linux distributions not having a clear answer to age verification laws after weeks of their announcement, but then lots of them started discussing them. really! discussing them! what's […]

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What if we tried @cyberlyra.bsky.social 's 21 Day Cyber Cleanse for 21 weeks instead?

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optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/

Take time on the weekend to try something new-- disentangle from a #bigtech service you've wanted to leave for a while.

Join in the fun!

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Some of America's most powerful tech oligarchs seem pathologically unreflective. Yet these are the people who most need to understand themselves, Thomas Chatterton Williams argues […]

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Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours. Last month, I closed out the Warner Bros. bidding war saga with this line: > _"Whether it's Netflix or Paramount holding the keys to Warner Bros., that part doesn't change. We're still paying $18/month for a streaming service that drops three episodes of a show and then makes us wait six months for the rest. The consolidation is happening, the prices will keep going up, and the content will keep getting spread thinner."_ > I didn't think it would take less than a month to be proven right. On Thursday, March 26, Netflix quietly updated their help page with new pricing across every single plan. No press release. No announcement. Just: here are your new prices, effective today for new subscribers, rolling out to existing members over the coming weeks. ## What You're Paying Now Here's the damage: Plan Old Price New Price Change Standard with Ads $7.99/mo $8.99/mo +$1 Standard (no ads) $17.99/mo $19.99/mo +$2 Premium (4K, 4 streams) $24.99/mo $26.99/mo +$2 Extra Member (ad-supported) $5.99/mo $6.99/mo +$1 Extra Member (ad-free) $8.99/mo $9.99/mo +$1 This is the **second price hike in just over a year.** The last one hit in January 2025. If you want Netflix without ads, the cheapest you can get it is now **$19.99 a month.** If you want 4K, you're looking at **nearly $30.** ## Netflix's Statement Is a Work of Art in Corporate Non-Language Netflix's statement to Variety: _"As we deliver more value to our members, we are updating our prices to enable us to reinvest in quality entertainment and improve their experience by updating our prices."_ They said "updating our prices" **twice** in the same sentence. That's not an accident. That's what happens when your PR team has to explain a price increase without using the word "increase." The "more value" argument is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Yes, Netflix has added video podcasts, live events, and sports content. They've also been spending $20 billion on content in 2026 alone — up from $18 billion in 2025. But nobody asked for video podcasts. And the core experience — dropping partial seasons, algorithmic recommendations that feel like they're actively avoiding what you want, the endless scroll — hasn't materially improved. ## Let's Talk About the $2.8 Billion Here's the part I can't get past. Netflix just walked away from the Warner Bros. acquisition last month and **collected a $2.8 billion termination fee** in the process. Netflix CFO Spence Neumann stood at an investor conference and said — and I want you to really hear this — _"Now we move forward, and we move forward with $2.8 billion in our pocket that we didn't have a few weeks ago."_ Cool. Great. Terrific. Now they've turned right around and raised prices on every subscriber in America. I'm not suggesting there's a direct causal link — the price hike was telegraphed in Netflix's Q4 earnings guidance in January, before the deal collapsed. But the optics of walking away from an $82.7 billion acquisition with a $2.8 billion consolation prize and then immediately coming for your customers' wallets next billing cycle... that's a specific kind of audacity. ## The Ad-Supported "Escape Hatch" Is Getting More Expensive Too This is the part that should actually annoy you. When Netflix launched its ad-supported tier, the pitch was pretty clear: if you can't stomach the price increases on the premium tiers, here's a cheaper option. Accept some ads, pay less. Fine. That tier just went from $7.99 to **$8.99.** A $1 increase on a plan that still shows you the same ads — research from Parks Associates found that seven in ten viewers say the same ads repeat too often on streaming services. You're paying more for the same annoying experience. (And if you've been following the broader war on users who just want to watch something without being monetized to death, this pattern should feel very familiar.) And the gap between ad-supported and ad-free is now **$11 a month.** If you don't want ads, that's $11 extra every single month. The "cheap" tier isn't a path down anymore — it's just a slower path to the same destination. ## You're Also Paying More for a Worse Viewing Experience The price is only part of the story. The _product_ has also gotten worse in ways that never make the press release. **The binge model is quietly dying.** Netflix built its entire identity on dropping full seasons at once. That was the deal — you pay, you watch, you don't have to wait. Now they're increasingly releasing in batches or on weekly schedules. You get half a season, then wait a month for the back half. Or you get one episode a week like it's 1987 and you have rabbit ears. They didn't announce this as a policy change. They just started doing it. **The gap between seasons is getting longer.** Stranger Things is the most egregious example — fans waited over three years between Season 4 (July 2022) and the final season (November 2025). A show that's been running since 2016, and it took nearly a decade to produce five short seasons. Now, plenty of people have figured out the workaround: cancel, wait for the drop, resubscribe, binge, cancel again. Netflix knows you're doing this. They've _always_ known. And their response hasn't been to shorten the gaps or reward loyalty — it's been to make the content calendar unpredictable enough that you're never quite sure when it's safe to cancel without missing something. The churn game is a feature, not a bug. **And if a show survives long enough to get traction, there's a decent chance it gets cancelled at Season 3.** Not because it failed — sometimes right when it's hitting its stride. Netflix has developed a well-documented pattern of greenlighting shows, letting them build an audience over two or three seasons, and then axing them right around the point where they'd have to start paying the cast and crew significantly more. The show doesn't get an ending. The audience doesn't get closure. _Santa Clarita Diet._ Three seasons. A genuinely weird, funny, beloved show — Season 3 scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes — with a cliffhanger ending that will never be resolved. Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant spent three seasons building something people actually cared about, and Netflix pulled the plug right before the story paid off. Creator Victor Fresco found out his show was cancelled while sitting in the edit suite — an assistant producer walked in to tell him the sets were being dismantled. That's how he heard. Fresco had deliberately ended Season 3 on a cliffhanger to try to force Netflix's hand — _"We didn't want to make it easier for them to cancel us,"_ he said. It didn't matter. They booked the subscriber acquisition value from the marketing push, counted the streams, and sent someone to tear down the sets. The fans are still out there, years later, knowing they'll never find out what happened. That's not a content strategy. That's using your audience as a resource and discarding them when the math changes. ## And Then There's the Chef's Kiss That Ties the Whole Thing Together In 2017, Netflix posted a tweet that became something of a brand identity statement: _"Love is sharing a password."_ They meant it. CEO Reed Hastings said the same year that password sharing was _"a positive thing, not a negative thing."_ For years, sharing your Netflix login with a kid at college, a parent across town, or a new partner was practically a cultural ritual. Netflix knew. Netflix encouraged it. Netflix built an audience of over 100 million password-sharing households on the back of that goodwill. Then in 2023, they killed it. Suddenly sharing a password was a terms-of-service violation, and adding someone outside your household would cost you extra — on top of the subscription you were already paying. The tweet is still out there. The goodwill it was built on is not. So to recap: they got you hooked on a generous, flexible product. Raised prices. Cracked down on the sharing they told you was love. Switched from full season drops to batches and weekly episodes. Cancelled the shows you cared about before they could finish their stories. Made the content calendar unpredictable enough that you can't even strategically cancel anymore. And now they want two more dollars a month. ## The Pattern Is the Point Netflix isn't an outlier. Every major streamer has raised prices in the past two years. But Netflix's pace is worth documenting. Netflix's Standard plan history, roughly: * **2019:** ~$12.99/month * **2022:** $15.49/month * **Early 2025:** $17.99/month * **Today:** $19.99/month The mid-tier plan has gone up roughly **54% in five years.** Meanwhile, Netflix's Q4 2024 earnings set subscriber records. The company is projecting $50+ billion in revenue for 2026. They're not raising prices because they're struggling. They're raising prices because they can. ## What You Can Actually Do Honestly? Not a lot. Netflix has the content. They know they have the content. Your leverage is cancellation, and they also know that most people who cancel come back. But if you're paying for Premium and only using two screens — drop to Standard. If you haven't audited your streaming subscriptions lately, now is a good time. The average household holds nearly six streaming subscriptions; that's a lot of $2 increases adding up across a lot of services. Or don't. They've already factored your inertia into their revenue projections. That's the most honest thing I can tell you. _Existing subscribers will get email notice one month before the new prices hit their billing cycle. New subscribers see the new prices starting today._ **Got thoughts on this mess? Find me on Mastodon at****@ppb1701@ppb.social**

Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours.

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#blog #netflix #streaming #streamingwars #bigtech #userhostile #enshitification

🎁 Roxane van Iperen: ‘Big tech maakt fruitvliegjes van onze kinderen’ Ons hoofd is met een zuignap verbonden aan mondiale techbedrijven, die ons leegzuigen om aan ons te verdienen. Het bedreigt onze democratie, schrijft Roxane van Iperen in het essay voor de Maand van de Filosofie. ‘Het vileine is dat het lijden nu bijna onzichtbaar is.’

leestip (gratis): fd.nl/samenleving/... | #bigtech #ai

☁️ South America’s sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s cloud

IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social calls for South American governments to stand up to #BigTech firms extracting data, knowledge, and natural resources from the region.

✍️ Read her @opendemocracy.net article here: buff.ly/hQrX1yY

@mddems.bsky.social @senbillferg.bsky.social @govwesmoore.bsky.social

STOP working exclusively for #BigOil and #BigTech and double down on meeting our #Climate goals

you too @katiehester.bsky.social

#Cherish #People over #Profit

but remember who stands to gain, #BigOil and #BigTech, follow the money

With the new upcoming #eu #digital #omnibus the #european #commission brakes down barriers for #bigtech (mis) using #personal #data for #AI purposes. To preserve #privacy #rights consider #supporting @NOYBeu just as I do.
#gdpr #law #membership

as we are in the streets today and until we get our government back

please always remember

#Trump is a tool, a vile one,
but it’s #BigOil and #BigTech that funded him

it’s #BigOil and #BigTech #Fascism

(and we can generate #Electricity and #Compute without destroying our #Atmosphere)

The broligarchy's war on journalism The capture of US media by Trump allies is accelerating and the UK is the next in line. Plus: the mystery money behind my old newspaper.

Carole Cadwalladr on the current state of journalism.
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#Media #Journalism #Newspapers #BigTech