Anti-Corporate Movement

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This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.

Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.

Current topics this includes but is not limited to:

Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.

Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.

But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.

But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.

But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.

But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.

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Stop Killing Games has opened a European Citizens' Initiative proposing new law that would make game publishers have to leave games in a playable state when they stop supporting them. (www.stopkillinggames.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15126981

This comes after a sea of games have been lost due to the creators turning off the servers. While community remake projects like RELB for Lawbreakers, Loadout Reloaded and a server emulator for The Crew exist, they're miles behind where we'd be if publishers just released a way to host our own servers before killing their creations. They need more signatures from European citizens and then the proposal goes to a board who decide what to do with it.

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What logo should we use? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)
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This community does have quite a couple of subscribers but so far we have no favicon/logo. What do you think we should use?

Jeff? Bill? Elon? Some cursed „cousin“?

The most popular idea will be considered. Still needs to be legally doable and somewhat represent the community of course.

Happy hunting!

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Welcome to the Anti-Corporate Movement! (lemmy.giftedmc.com)
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Hello World!

We have done it! We opened the first openly anti corporate community on lemmy.

The description has been carefully crafted but still needs a lot of work so feel free to suggest additions and give feedback. We will add rules and other stuff eventually.

The discussion in here should remain respectful. People who defend corporations are still people. Please be kind. If they use rhetoric instead of arguments they will be banned anyway.

Please report and kind of trolling and what you suspect as propaganda. Our definition of propaganda is the following:

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.[1] Propaganda can be found in a wide variety of different contexts.[2]

This is taken from the wikipedia.org article. We dont interject if someone is just passionate but if the language they use suggests that they are trying to get around making good arguments, we will.

We're happy to have you here. Feel free to post something.

Have a great day! :)

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Finally! (www.theverge.com)
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16483931

Google has to face a class action lawsuit over Chrome’s data collection

"Google will have to face a class action lawsuit that accuses it of collecting users’ data through Chrome without their consent. In a decision on Tuesday, a federal appeals court reversed a December 2022 ruling that dismissed the case, saying the lower court should’ve reviewed Google’s disclosures and determined “whether a reasonable user reading them would think that he or she was consenting to the data collection.”...

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BMW Adaptive Suspension Can Be Added via Subscription. Suspension As A Service (SAAS) (www.bmwblog.com)
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23949437

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What would the labor activists from 100 years ago say/do about the current system and high COL we just put up with? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18769750

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Paying for development from the donations for the first time! (postmarketos.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19208598

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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19172415

Google's campaign against ad blockers across its services just got more aggressive. According to a report by PC World, the company has made some alterations to its extension support on Google Chrome.

Google Chrome recently changed its extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the new Manifest V3 framework. The browser policy changes will impact one of the most popular adblockers (arguably), uBlock Origin.

The transition to the Manifest V3 framework means extensions like uBlock Origin can't use remotely hosted code. According to Google, it "presents security risks by allowing unreviewed code to be executed in extensions." The new policy changes will only allow an extension to execute JavaScript as part of its package.

Over 30 million Google Chrome users use uBlock Origin, but the tool will be automatically disabled soon via an update. Google will let users enable the feature via the settings for a limited period before it's completely scrapped. From this point, users will be forced to switch to another browser or choose another ad blocker.

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Apple vs the “free market” (pluralistic.net)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19179773

Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet. Apple contributes nothing to their work, but it will get to steal a third of their wages. How is this possible? Enshittification.

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Stop Killing Games: live interview with Ross from accursed farms (www.youtube.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18643442

Starting soon at 18:00 UTC (a little over an hour from now).

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Company Implementing AI Monitoring Software to Watch Employees (mastodon.social)
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In 2019, Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40% (www.cnn.com)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12299373

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Youtube slashes quality over airplay! (lemmy.giftedmc.com)
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Today I encountered something new and dystopian:

You can airplay from your iphone to an appletv but now youtube drops and locks the quality at 360p, making the content unwatchable on larger screens.

Once you disable airplay, the quality jumps back to 1080p. If you choose 1080p before and enable airiplay after, it still changes.

This hasnt been an issue for years. this new anti consumer move prompted me to order another raspberry pi to put kodi on.

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Tenants’ Unions Across the US Now Have a National Federation (jacobin.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18508087

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Giant FAQ on The European Initiative to Stop Destroying Games! (youtu.be)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12250966

Link to sign EU initiative: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

Guides on how to sign EU initiative: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

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Intel lays off 15% of its staff and its stock tumbles as it struggles to turn around its ailing business | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26203588

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Meta settles Texas privacy lawsuit for $1.4 billion over allegations that the tech giant illegally used facial recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions without their consent (apnews.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18182378

Filed in 2022, the Texas lawsuit said that Meta was in violation of a state law that prohibits capturing or selling a resident’s biometric information, such as their face or fingerprint, without their consent.

The company announced in 2021 that it was shutting down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police and others.

Texas filed a similar lawsuit against Google in 2022. Paxton’s lawsuit says the search giant collected millions of biometric identifiers, including voiceprints and records of face geometry, through its products and services like Google Photos, Google Assistant, and Nest Hub Max. That lawsuit is still pending.

The $1.4 billion is unlikely to make a dent in Meta’s business. The Menlo Park, California-based tech made a profit of $12.37 billion in the first three months of this year, Its revenue was $36.46 billion, an increase of 27% from a year earlier.

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Intel class action lawsuit investigation begins for the company's CPU crashing and instability issues (www.tomshardware.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26116105

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Chinese firm ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has lost its appeal against a European Union decision to designate the company a digital "gatekeeper" (www.dw.com)
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/889819

The EU General Court in Luxembourg ruled that the designation was warranted under the European Union's new Digital Markets Act (DMA) because short video app TikTok exceeded relevant thresholds including global market value and the number of EU users.

Labeled companies are prevented from forcing users in the bloc to consent to have access to a service or certain functionalities.

ByteDance had argued that its global market value largely came from China, rather than the EU.

It also said TikTok does not operate an exponential user expansion model and that it was acting as a "challenger" to digital monopolies operated by established platforms such as Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Alphabet, which owns Google. Both companies are also designated as "gatekeepers."

But the EU General Court rejected those arguments, finding that TikTok could no longer be considered a "challenger" on the market, unlike when it joined back in 2018.

The judges concluded that TikTok had "succeeded in increasing its number of users very rapidly and exponentially" since then, and that its large number of European users does indeed contribute to its global market value.

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Nintendo Sues 'Modded Hardware' and r/SwitchPirates Moderator 'Archbox' * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/15200191

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Corpos being corpos (sh.itjust.works)
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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)
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cross-posted from: https://ttrpg.network/post/7528051

It's disappointing that copyright infringement could cause these people to spend time in prison, but the predatory practices of the companies they where competing with are punished with no more then fines. A "cost of doing business" for the corporate aristocrats. This is the threat the upper class uses on the rest of us, and all too often do not suffer themselves.

"Rules for thee, but not for me" - Corporations

It's disappointing that copyright infringement could cause these people to spend time in prison, but the predatory practices of the companies they where competing with are punished with no more then fines. A "cost of doing business" for the corporate aristocrats. This is the threat the upper class uses on the rest of us, and all too often do not suffer themselves.

"Rules for thee, but not for me" - Corporations

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Elon Musk's X revenue has officially plummeted, new documents show (mashable.com)
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/16896074

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Meta releases Threads API for developers to build “unique integrations” (www.theverge.com)
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/16834299

Meta releases Threads API for developers to build “unique integrations”

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Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers | WIRED (www.wired.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/17575132

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