Perhaps my opinions are different from others but I feel like these websites are forgetting that they're an optional part of people's lives. There are plenty of things I can spend my time on besides reddit and YouTube, and Netflix is forgetting that it's marginally more convenient than piracy.
I think that people who download rebuilds are by and large not going to pay for licenses. The hobbyists running a rebuild for their home lab will move to another distro. Massive legacy enterprises will use unsupported distros until it becomes untenable, and are very likely to move to another distro. Hyperscalers like oracle and Amazon will either figure out loopholes and/or eventually move new products to be based on another distro. Red hat's contributions to FOSS and being both technically and politically stable led to many technologies being built around red hat. But the only reason that this ecosystem exists is because of Red Hat's reputation of stability and openness, which they have slowly destroyed over the past few years. And I do think that this will eventually lead to lost revenue.
A lot of things that US courts have recently done(this included) is making making me wonder about how judicial review should work. Because what I keep seeing is that US courts will strike down shitty band aid solutions(which AA was, it was an attempt at a quick and easy solution for a very long list of social issues) without offering better alternatives. I do think that affirmative action should not have to exist, but the better choice is full scale education reform, addressing systemic racism, an understanding of how privilege affects educational outcomes, and greater availability and lower cost of the highest quality tertiary education. As it is today I am observing courts not choosing perfect over good, but rather destroying half baked solutions because they oppose the intended outcomes of those solutions.
The thing is in a country where cops regularly kill black people for no reason, race is unfortunately a major source of diversity. Discrimination creates division, not the other way around.
It definitely is upper middle income and I'm not trying to imply otherwise. It's just crazy to me that millionaires are so much closer to the average American than billionaires and corporations as far as income goes.
It would be absolutely horrible if when the site inevitably becomes even more poorly moderated and overrun by neo-nazi adjacent content, if we were to collect some evidence of this and tragically send it directly to a few media outlets. It would be so horrible if those outlets then covered reddit like they cover Voat and 4chan now. A true tragedy it would be if reddit lost 80% of its advertisers overnight due to this.
Millionaires are definitely still well off but just to make a point: the average value of a US house is $450k. Add to this a $250k retirement fund and you're already up to 0.7M in net worth.
I understand that this doesn't work for everyone but I'm kinda the reverse. My entire workflow relies on Linux, but I occasionally play video games. I'd say any game without aggressive anti cheat works fine on Linux nowadays.
Not necessarily advocating for giving everyone a platform but an interesting thought here is how we should treat the concept of free speech in an era where so many important things are under the jurisdiction of private entities. If 90% of public squares were owned by companies who restricted what you can wear, say, and who you can talk to on that public square, that would technically not run afoul of free speech but definitely would practically heavily restrict people's ability to freely express themselves. Meanwhile, this exact scenario is the case on the internet with private corporations owning most of it and are free to remove whatever content they want at a whim.
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