>At what point exactly are those companies going to be held accountable and punished for their irresponsible behaviour and overall disregard and negligence for security and ethics practices?

In this political climate? The fifth of never would be my guess.

That was my first thought too.

The people with money, obviously.

As if AI scrapers haven't already!

If the word fuck isn't offensive, there's absolutely no reason to use it.

Yet every culture across the globe has and has always had swearing, profanity, taboo words, fart jokes, and gate keepers decrying such things.

While the reasons may elude, the ubiquity speaks to something foundational.

If casual use of profane and taboo words isn't offensive, are they really profane and taboo?

Non homogenous population response says both Yes and No

Fart jokes are popular in US. Mostly.

no one is challenging whether "fuck" is offensive, we're challenging what powers the mild abrasiveness of a single word actually gives people in controlling behavior.

Considering how quickly poultry and fish go bad, they weren't entirely wrong.

Fish and/or poultry have been eaten in every civilization we've ever known about....

I had Tang every day with lunch when I was a kid. But it was the seventies so there's that ...

Ya know, this would probably be pointless but if I were a programmer (I'm not -and refuse to be a vibe coder) I'd probably just grab appropriate libraries and make my own replacements for this shit. GLTK+ (?) is an obvious choice to use for recreating mspaint, and to replace notepad -I was told making a simple editor was an excercise they have you do when you learn programming to begin with?

I already replaced the 'solitaire' games suite with pysol running on WSL2 and it's a vast improvement!

tldr -if MS is going to screw us, why don't we mitigate it by using replacements?

I would've thought the obvious API to recreate mspaint was Win32

It's cute that you seem to think anyone will ever be held accountable ever again. Anyone who's studied history knows what direction this is going to go and the chances of their being a Nuremburg Trail II are very, very slim.

It's not a matter of "cute" and thinking that Nuremberg-style accountability will definitively happen, but rather that if we are going to fight for our liberty then we must draw clear lines in the sand about things like morality and values. This isn't merely some political disagreement over how to implement policy that effects shared values, but rather a political party being wholly taken over by malevolent anti-American interests and convincing its constituents to shred their own morality. The need for moral lines in the sand applies across the whole spectrum - all the way from the edgelords still simping for the cucked Republican party because line goes up or trolling makes them feel powerful or whatever, to the would-be opposition party who needs to know that a message of "you have to vote for us because we're less bad" is woefully insufficient.

Unless you have a practical nuts-and-bolts solution for dealing with the money and connections of orgs such as the Heritage Foundation and the various Tech Oligarchs pushing fascism (e.g. Palintir) your 'resistance' will mean fuck-all, sorry.

The ballot box doesn't matter and the bullet box is irrelevant in the face of ICE and the militarizing of the police force.

There's no getting off this train, whether you surrender or fight changes nothing.

> Unless you have a practical nuts-and-bolts solution...

If it goes that far, I imagine more a guns-and-bullets solution pushing on one side with a larger, more peaceful resistance pushing from the other.

> bullet box is irrelevant in the face of ICE and the militarizing of the police force.

Only if you view it as an all-out war, which it would never be. Threat being enough works both ways.