Cunty Club
Hi! Welcome to 2025. Hope you've come prepared, because it's bound to be interesting. Anyhoo, let's get to it. Let's talk TikTok, Proton, pr0n (remember when we used to spell porn like that?), and other stuff.
The Supreme Court of the United States of America just upheld the TikTok ban, and things are just going to get stupider as we go because everyone who's in charge of things is a cunt. Metaverse boy is a cunt who wants to buy his way into being a cool MMA meathead, so he hands out board seats to the fella he's trying to impress. Twitter boy is a cunt who wants to be human 4 Chan. Alibaba of the west boy is a cunt who wants to ride dick-shaped rockets. The list goes on, but you catch my drift.
These cunts took over the tech industry, the internet, and, now, the United States federal government. They say money can't buy happiness, but it surely looks like money can buy whatever the fuck people with billions of dollars want, including public governance. This is extra bad because of those shifting baselines we keep talking about: at some point, cunts legislating via tweet becomes normal, and we all just shrug and accept it. They won, we lost, don't be a sour loser. Them cunts bending over backwards to curry favor with the new old regime is just business. There's no morality involved. If they need to drop on all fours to get that extra couple billions, that's what they'll do. Shame and a conscience is for the poors.
But I digress. The three branches of government they bought — with plenty of change left — are now hard at work removing the few remaining barriers to yolo capitalism, banning players that don't belong to their little club, telling people who love muh freedoms! and hate government overreach (lol) that they can't go to Pornhub anymore (long VPN companies!), and looking the other way when our local cunts do the exact same thing the banned players do. As oberstcunt Peter Thiel said, competition is for losers.
It goes without saying that banning TikTok doesn't do anything. It also goes without saying that crying "hypocrites!" doesn't do anything, either. You cannot bring morals and ideological consistency to a cunt fight. It's simply a matter of "surveillance capitalism in the United States of America is for local cunts only." No need to overthink it.
Which is why literally no one should be surprised that Proton CEO was all like "Republicans rule! Democrats drool!" despite the fact that his company's whole thing was "We're not like the other guys! We respect your privacy!". So much so that he had to apologize? Maybe? I don't know. Anyway, the actual message is "We're morally flexible, and we go where the money is. We sway with the wind." His company is not a good, old-fashioned American company, though. So he just sounds desperate.
The solution is data privacy laws, but that's bad for business. Even when you're known for advocating for it! I don't see Elizabeth Warren winning a senate seat if she delivers on everything she wants to deliver. If your job is to solve a problem, solving said problem will render you unemployed. Never mind that it should work like that.
And this is very much a cybersecurity problem because the game is now out in the open. Hoard all the data you want. Sell it to whoever you want. Leak it with reckless abandon because nothing is going to happen to you. Commit fraud! Pull rugs! There's a presidential pardon waiting for you if you play your cards right. We don't like the Chinese, but we agree with their communist ideals in that your data is our data, comrade! Who you gonna call when your identity is stolen? Ghostbusters? Not that it isn't like that right now, mind you. It's that, but cranked up to 11.
For the rest of the world, what's left are the strays they'll catch. Some friendly foreign government cunt will ban TikTok too just to signal support and hope senpai notices. Some unfriendly foreign government cunt will use that as a talking point that goes nowhere. Meanwhile, we all lose, and we have very little recourse. That's why I think it's very important to at least try and rid ourselves from cuntpitalism.
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