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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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We went from mass surveillance to hardware confiscation real quick.
These companies are so large that they don’t need the consumer market anymore. The consumer is now the competition. They can essentially purchase the entire planet’s output of computing hardware years in advance to force us out of the market and lease it back to us at inflated rates. Then, they turn all that tensor compute against us to make everyone’s life a living digital surveillance hell.
Forget Internet freedom, computational liberty is now at risk. Who needs all that expensive legal and technological architecture to steal your data, report on you to the government, and enforce DRM when they control bare metal access to your rented corporate cloud hardware because consumer PC equipment is too astronomically expensive to afford for the average person?
We need to elevate the prosecution of anti-trust to the level of religious inquisition, and burn these companies at the stake. They’re using AI to literally enslave humanity, and it’s working.
I can't agree with this more, but what's the plan exactly?
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You know, I feel that's causing a lot of distress, and not just for myself. I think maybe they also want desperate people, which might be why they've built their bunkers
E: shit, I don't want to be more of a downer than I have to be, been there for too long, not helpful. There's no way to win a war other than keep up the morale, thanks for the cat face, it did make me smile for what it's worth lol ˄_~
And to be helpful this was something I came by last week in case anyone hasn't seen it yet, it's about as optimistic a thing that's come about recently. And I'll add it took me a hot minute to find it on my phone, despite knowing exactly which video I was looking for...