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  • It’s a bit of a sticking point in Australia which is becoming more and more of a ‘two-speed’ society. Foxtel is for the rich classes, it caters to the right wing. Sky News is on Foxtel.

    These eSafety directives killing access to youtube won’t affect those rich kids so much, but for everyone else it’s going to be a nightmare.

    My only possible hope out of this is that maybe, Parliament and ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority, TV standards) decide that since we need a greater media landscape for kids and they can’t be allowed to have it online, that maybe more than 3 major broadcasters could be allowed.

    It’s not a lack of will that stops anyone else making a new free-to-air network, it’s legislation, there are only allowed to be 3 commercial FTA broadcasters in any area.

    I don’t love Youtube or the kids watching it, it’s that the alternatives are almost objectively worse. 10 and 7 and garbage 24/7 and 9 is basically a right-wing hugbox too.




  • “TPM is a backdoor” was something that got bandied around during the Vista era psrtially by people not understanding and partially (imo) to muddy the waters.

    Secure Boot was maligned as at the time only MS were allowed to sign for it, so it was just an anti-linux locker. Later, after much haranguing, they backpedaled and allowed Canonical and Redhat to sign things, much much later, we could self sign.

    TPM was also maligned around the same since MS (allegedly) had aspersions to only allow signed software which would be encrypted so that ‘bad actors’ (the users themselves) couldn’t change ‘protected’ (any) executables. I think the closest we’ve ever seen of that is Windows S.