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Call me cynical, but I've seen so many of these internet "protests" over the years. I'm just so numb at this point. Nothing ever changes.

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[-] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 14 points 5 hours ago

go see the original video, they're doing it because of game of thrones mask scene

[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 21 points 15 hours ago

EPIC WIN

owned like a boss 😎

[-] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 28 points 16 hours ago

that will show em

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 65 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

“If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.”

Pirating still wouldn't be stealing if buying was owning, dipshits. Copying something is not theft.

The implication of this statement that it IS stealing in other circumstances pisses me off

[-] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago

Pirating is a radical as it gets for these comfortable children.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 38 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

to be fair this one is kind of a counter-slogan to the corporations pushing that piracy is theft.

the point is moot anyway because ai companies keep pirating shit to train their llms without consequence.

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 11 points 11 hours ago

Does this mean claiming that your brain is an LLM would serve as a legal defense to piracy?

[-] Binette@lemmy.ml 27 points 17 hours ago

What makes me even more cynical is the amount of those clippy "protestors" i saw under a video of a guy making a mix network, calling it a "new internet" and ending up just having ai generated specs.

And criticism gets met with shit like this:

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 57 points 19 hours ago

loser internet protest, they're still going to complain about linux not giving them treats and install Windows 12 anyway.

Louis Rossman is a chud libertarian who lives in texas, it was doomed from the start.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 31 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

lmao @ supporting right-to-repair and capitalism at the same time. Damn I wonder why everything is getting enshittified, must be the woke mob

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago

Looking for the one true capitalist who balances profit and quality (shhh dont tell them where the profit part came from)

[-] john_brown@hexbear.net 24 points 15 hours ago

Lmao he moved to Texas? What a moron.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago

He moved to Texas because he got mad about New York City taxes and commercial rent

[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 80 points 20 hours ago

“When a company CEO logs into their Slack and sees 10,000 Clippys looking back at them, what I hope occurs is that they intuitively understand that they no longer live in a world where they can get away with f*cking over the consumer.”

if nobody calls for a boycott or any other action that hurts the bottom line, then this is just virtue signalling based on the flawed assumption that the companies would actually give a shit if some users changed their profile picture but did nothing else, should've used this opportunity to focus on BDS instead

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 53 points 18 hours ago

Liberal action is always "if we make the kings feel slightly uncomfortable, they'll completely stop being awful to us." it's complete nonsense

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 15 points 13 hours ago

"When mi'lord sees how pitiful we are, he'll quit taking 4/5ths of our harvest"

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 37 points 18 hours ago

When you get your theory of political action from The Grinch

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 35 points 18 hours ago

I dunno, taking all my enemies stuff and throwing it off a mountain seems pretty cool

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 29 points 19 hours ago

At most, a corporation might decide to adjust its messaging around AI somewhat

[-] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 11 points 13 hours ago

Or disable PFP’s, or do like the Disney streaming app where you select one PFP out of an assortment of choices. As long as folks are willing to stay on the platform, Corpo’s got lots of options

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 29 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

reminds me of that stick figure meme protest when google disabled youtube comments in favor of having to use their shitty social network to post them.

everyone hated it. everyone kept using the service and eventually forgot it was even a thing.

stop using that garbage if you don't like invasive age verification. let them feel the pressure of losing their users in an entire country. no one fucking NEEDS social media.

the fact most people cave to it is ridiculous at best, considering how bad it actually is.

[-] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

"Bob's Army against Google+" is what umbrella is referring to, it's a beautiful piece of nonsensical archeological artifact of the early 2010s..

When Google+ was eventually shut down, I think people genuinely believe it was a result of copying-pasting this ASCII art everywhere lol...

This was the same year or so when a bombing took place in France or something and Facebook had a filter option to layer the Fr*nch flag on your pfp in solidarity......... while some people understandably asked why the Syrian flag was nowhere to be seen.. In any case this is the extent of Western protests, no treats were harmed in the process..

[-] I_Voxgaard@hexbear.net 60 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The “right to repair” activist compared changing your PFP to Clippy to the Sons of the Harpy movement in Game of Thrones, season five

LMAO wasn't that an insurgency to reinstate literal slavery?!

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 hours ago

And those dudes were actually killing people, not just putting on dumb masks

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 39 points 19 hours ago

Well, Dany became a bad guy at the end and therefore everyone who was ever against her became retroactively correct. liberalism

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 56 points 20 hours ago

CEO's quaking in their boots over a fuckin jpg, im sure

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 27 points 18 hours ago

Reminds me of when people were copying some spiel about how FB could not use any of their pictures etc. without their consent.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 44 points 20 hours ago

surely corporations will change their ways if we just ask! they just dont know we dont like this!

this will be as effective as changing your pfp to the ukraine flag was

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 42 points 20 hours ago

The “right to repair” activist compared changing your PFP to Clippy to the Sons of the Harpy movement in Game of Thrones, season five.

Not the comparison you'd want to make.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago
[-] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 25 points 19 hours ago

Is it just me or was clippy objectively awful? I have zero warm and fuzzy feelings for that little shit.

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago

Bonzi Buddy > Clippy

[-] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 14 points 13 hours ago

It’s clippy revisionism, the nerds shit all over clippy when Microsoft forced him in there. Nobody really even remembers clippy outside of memes.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 12 points 13 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the only reason Clippy exists is because the tech was originally developed for Microsoft Bob and that was a huge flop, so they had to use it for something.

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 39 points 20 hours ago

Pretty sure this Louis Rossmann person was way late to the party but maybe @Clippy@hexbear.net can elaborate

[-] Clippy@hexbear.net 28 points 14 hours ago

Clippy says death to apartheid

[-] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 21 points 13 hours ago

Thank you, Clippy!

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 34 points 20 hours ago

He’s a chud anyway.

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