Corporate America never backs down. It simply rallies and tries again later until people are too fatigued to care. The only solution is to abandon ship, which I am doing. MS walked back in OS ads the first few times, but ultimately we still ended up on the exact trajectory everyone was outraged at. OpenAI still ended up on its path to closed AI despite initial walk backs. The story repeats itself over and over again, so, once the bad behavior starts, you leave. Their apologies are as hollow as their moral posturing.
Easy to say, but every bank I've had the (dis)pleasure of doing business with only ever issued a Visa or Mastercard so it's not really feasible to just "stop using them"
I hope this has some answers [1]. It’s on the front page right now, but your frustration clearly seems to have some implicit answers that [1] is trying to answer.
This is more on brand on the evil shortcomings that comes with letting effective altruism run unchecked and honestly is worse than average "Corporate America". And the Tech/AI Space have been warned many times.
Getting paid for providing a compute/token hungry model and still intentionally sabotaging your customers and poisoning their workflows is something that should be unforgivable and frankly ground for antitrust prosecution.
"Corporate America never backs down. It simply rallies and tries again later until people are too fatigued to care. "
Frankly, that sounds excactly like Chat Control and similar recurring attempts to enact total surveillance here in the EU (Now shifted to heavy-handed age verification and various politicians touting bans on VPNs.) I don't want to abandon my continent of birth, though...
I have encountered enough such people to know that the really heavy push is coming from the police and secret service circles. These are the workplaces that attract all the wannabe Stasi types.
I am 100% convinced the reason laptops came with webcams as standard so early on, even when webcams were an expensive option, was because law enforcement needed to spy on people.
Then you have to fight, not just the battle but the war. Its not enoygh to get people to back down, keep going, go for the throat. Demand the resignation of the politician proposing the bill. If theres no risk for trying, theyll keep trying.
