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Who is Lemmy to you? What would a ban look like to you?
Like lemmy.world defederating from several tankie instances and the active discussion about defederating from additional communist instances?
Is that thing that is already happening the thing you want to happen or are there some additional things you want?
m2c: no one should get banned for sharing his ideas. There's a right to hate without exercising violence.
Even attempting to draw a parallel like that between race/ethnicity and material wealth is a fairly questionable take to most rational people I'd say, or at least hope.
You may have misunderstood my comment; it was intended to suggest that I strongly question your values and priorities because you're attempting to equate something as innate as race with material wealth. I'd go further to say that your conflating communism and socialism with nazism and fascism is merely ideological drivel.
what the hell are you talking about? Victor d'Hupay was an aristocrat. John Goodwyn Barmby was a Chartist, one of whose literal tenets is "pay persons of modest means if they have to serve the interests of the nation". Thomas Moore was the Lord High Chancellor to Henry VIII. Charles Fourier was the equivalent of a millionaire at age 9. Marx was a lawyer. Engels was the son of a wealthy mill owners. William Morris was the son of what today we'd call a Wall Street fatcat. Kropotkin's family owned serfs.
Nearly everyone involved in suffrage movements started wealthy and observed the treatment of the poor and was moved to do something about it.
Is communism in the room with you at the moment?
What do you think communism is?
Because the internet itself functions based on the ideals of Communism... Literally.
Who designed the internet?
Did they make everyone pay for it?
Who designs and maintains the protocols the internet uses to communicate with?
Do they charge licensing fees for you to use them?
Who writes the encryption algorithms that make HTTPS actually secure?
Are they open source?
Can you use them without paying a licensing fee?
Who designs and maintains the HTML specification?
JavaScript?
Video codecs that make YouTube function without royalties?
Communism is EVERYWHERE, and it's glorious. Why do you so utterly fail to understand what it even is?
There are many moving pieces to "the Internet". Literally none fundamentally work based on Communism. Any "free work" is a fancy version of Black Friday doorbuster sales.
The United States military and research universities. Universities fund research to attract prestige, patentable technology, court donations, etc.
The early Internet was not available, period. For pay or not. Al Gore as Senator, pushed for it to open it for commercial exploitation and commercial ISP's began. Unless you had 500 hours of free AOL dialup, you were paying for it.
Cisco, IBM, Google, AWS, and others hire engineers to sit on the IETF, w3c, etc committees. They publish protocols so their employers can sell new products or maintain marketshare. As a side gig, they also review and approve protocols like ActivityPub.
No, the expense is recouped when companies buy products that are built around those products.
RSA is a multi-billion dollar security company. HTTPS certificates are products that you purchase from Certificate Authorities. Let's Encrypt is funded by commercial companies to ensure consumer confidence in their main products.
Sure. The algorithms are also reviewed and approved by NIST, a Communist agency run by the Communist country, the United States of America. You generally do not commercially use use an algorithm if it has not been approved by NIST.
Yes. Again, the expense is recouped when companies buy products that are built around those products.
Google, Apple, Mozilla, etc.
As above.
Streaming services are communism now?
The misunderstanding is yours.
Bahahahaha you literally do not understand what communism is...
Do you think all those corporations contributing to the OPEN STANDARDS are paying each other to work on the open standards?!
You remind me of a quote: "Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."
I am not a libertarian.
Ah yes, the ultimate form of communism: VENTURE CAPITALISM.
And I think you need to investigate how a lot of open source gets funded (if it does at all) and why. It's definitely not communism and in some cases, it's a worse model than even capitalism.
Whatabout what your mom does, down by the docks at night?