Yes, for the last century or so. But without success, and recently their grip is weakening because of a series of astonishingly stupid decisions.

Companies are created by and comprised of people.

And people are comprised of neutrons and electrons. And surprisingly behave in a very different way.

Companies are not people. Companies don’t share the moral with you. Crimes and moral are orthogonal at best.

You’re stacked alright…

Are they tasty?

2018 - 1986 = 32.

Not in the OS per se, but the only purpose of 97% of Android software is to show you as many ads as possible.

My understanding: woman in black shows fake affection to the man, giving his wife (in red) a reason to make a scandal that was mitigated by buying the new hat. That hat was the goal from the very start.

These comics become more and more puzzling…

That “boyfriend” just makes money, he doesn’t know or even care about your existence.

There are no resumes in Ba-Sing-Se.

You’re seriously using the exceptional, almost unique, case as an argument?

What’s the problem? 100M digits even in worst case Unicode would be less than 1GiB. Totally doable in the modern world.

Wrong. Tax is real threat for them, anything else – isn’t.

California gold rush

That was 200 years ago, though… Is it still some viral local joke?

What is the connection between San Francisco and shovels?

Did anyone expect children to give up just because some senile psyco-moralist said so?

What else can you even do with a computer besides managing files and running programs?

Arch users: Update OS!
Gentoo users: Compile OS!
*BSD users: Trying to make the OS work!
Windows: reboot and reinstall!
Android: Watch advertisements!
DOS: hm… Well. Yes.

Will the religious propaganda be also blocked?

It is OS. It doesn’t have any “integrated AI”.