In unwitting advocacy for corp pushers of new oppressive tech, posts that promote old pre-spychips are down-voted in relatively high numbers. It led to the moderator of a zerowaste community banning future discussion of efforts to prevent non-spychips from becoming e-waste. The ultimate result of suppressing the conversation is effectively hail corporate.

Shame on the zerowaste@slrpnk.net mods.

(update) It’s hail corporate for two reasons:

  • cultivates undue trust in corporate closed-source that nannies the consumers (who naively think they can “own” a black box)
  • promotes consumerism of new products made exclusively by giant corporations