I, for one, rejoice at the upcoming American century of humiliation.

"What are we? A bunch of ASIANS??"

I've learnt from a coworker that actually, all the stuff we order from AliExpress is crap they don't sell in their own country. A bit like the Swiss selling their shitty cheese abroad whilst they keep the good stuff for themselves.

Good for them! STEM folks might be slowly realising they are no different than the guy in blue on the production line, except that they are more likely to know what a directed graph is.

Capitalism with a human face doesn't make sense. It's like talking about Ethical Theft. It might have served its purpose, but now it's time to move on.

Any idea what would work comparably well instead?

There were many experiments; none seemed to be successful, unless you consider the current semi-capitalist China a social success.

Socialism yes indeed! But to say that China is semi capitalist is seeing the glass half empty; they are still in the preliminary stage of socialism. It's not perfect, but it doesn't have to be as long as it goes above and beyond what has been achieved by capitalism. I recommend The East is still red by Carlos Martinez about that. It deconstructs a lot of misconceptions about what China is and isn't.

Mark my words: in ten years from now on, the Chinese web will be more free and open than any Western country.

In China they have solved this issue already by having every website log in with your phone number which is already directly tied to your Chinese ID.

Problem is some countries don't lock down their phone numbers this far so for this to work you have to whitelist country codes which have secured phone numbers.

Isn't half the reason companies push for these sorts of controls is so they are allowed by the Chinese government to do business there?

It is truly last piece of the Bourgeois panopticon. Internet already feels broken. I have to constantly switch my VPN on to access this or that website. How long til they even prohibit that?

Most of the legit stuff was on telegram, surprisingly or not. I know people who bought uh firearms and more there. Unfortunately, it feels like it disappeared at the same time as the proximity feature

I predict this same restriction for Windows 12.

Probably to detect all variations of dangerous words such as "union", "genocide" and "peace".