This is a handy list for when my family starts cancelling... #TV #cdnpoli #uspoli #HBO #CNN

[4d3fect@sfba.social]

@jnow weird. Wonder what "others" are? I got nothing on that list rn.

[gustodon@mas.to]

@jnow To hell with every channel on that list.

[gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social]

@pewnack @jnow That doesn't solve the problem. This is them poisoning things at the water source, not the spigot. All you're going to be doing is pirating far-right propaganda.

[gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social]

@4d3fect @jnow They own Oracle. So basically the entire backbone of the internet. As a result, they also own the Java programming language, which gets pushed into universities, creating a dependency for new programmers. They own a death grip on multimedia and are literally inescapable. Even if you're just reading books, they have their tentacles in that too.

[anniebuddy@mstdn.ca]

@jnow

Wow. I already have either never engaged, don’t have accessed or don’t watch any of them. What a great boycott list. If it was a bingo card, I think I won, haha.

[4d3fect@sfba.social]

@GabeMoralesVR @jnow fair. I was thinking more of entertainment apps that you choose to sub to, less about inescapable stuff

[gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social]

@4d3fect @jnow Well, for example, you use SFBA.social, which uses BigBone and PostgreSQL Java Driver to extend Java to the platform. So on your mastodon account that you are subbed to, you're using their tech that they bought.

[4d3fect@sfba.social]

@GabeMoralesVR @jnow guilty as charged

[gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social]

@4d3fect @jnow Just to bring this back around, Oracle has been using Java as a blunt tool for political suppression. There was a recent case where they were suing someone for about 8 lines of unpublished code for an android port of some software. It was unpublished, meaning they didn't actually use the code. But it wasn't being used to protect IP, it was used to silence political opposition. They fought it all throughout the Obama years, until Trump's admin finally won oracle the case.

[billyjoebowers@mastodon.online]

@jnow

Oh no, PlutoTV is really the one that hurts.

[gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social]

@pewnack @jnow oh no a block. here let me do it for you.